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A Book of Surrealist Games Paperback - 1995

by Mel Gooding

This delightful book opens up for everyone the unorthodox creative methods of the Surrealist school of artists and poets that flourished in Europe in the early 1900s. Outrageous language games, alternative card games, "Dream Lotto", and automatic techniques for making poems, stories, collages, and photomontages are accompanied by the art of Max Ernst, Hans Arp, and Tristan Tzara.


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This delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy firsthand the provocative methods used by the artists and poets of the Surrealist school to break through conventional thought and behavior to a deeper truth. Invented and played by such artists as Andr Breton, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst, these gems still produce results ranging from the hilarious to the mysterious and profound.

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  • Title A Book of Surrealist Games
  • Author Mel Gooding
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st printing.
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Shambhala, Boston
  • Date 1995-07-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9781570620843 / 1570620849
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.21 x 4.33 x 0.39 in (15.77 x 11.00 x 0.99 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Surrealist games, Arts, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94023690
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700

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"Of great value to teachers, comedy writers and other problem-solvers, this is an illustrated compendium of ways to be inventive, humorous or absurd through irresponsibility or 'planned incongruity.'"— Ballast Quarterly Review



"This extraordinary collection of word games, visual tricks and intellectual assaults on the conventional is a treasure trove of the artistic and socio-linguistic conundrums which the Surrealists—Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara and their associates—cultivated from the 1920s onwards. Its compiler, Alastair Brotchie, is to be congratulated for salvaging such fascinating if recondite material from the various obscure journals in which it first appeared."— The Spectator

About the author

Mel Gooding is the editor of the Surrealist Games box and coeditor of The Playful Eye, a book of games and visual tricks.
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