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9780271037035 Academic Inspection Copy

From Diversion to Subversion

Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art
  • ISBN-13: 9780271037035
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by David J. Getsy
  • Price: AUD $180.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/2011
  • Format: Paperback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]
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Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

David J. Getsy

Part I: Games and Play in Twentieth-Century Art History

From Judgment to Process: The Modern Ludic Field

Susan Laxton

The Duchamp Code

Gavin Parkinson

My Utopia: Play in Bauhaus Photography

Kevin Moore

Serious Play: Games and Early Twentieth-Century Modernism

Claudia Mesch

Surrealist Gaming: Rules and the Rest

Mary Ann Caws

Playing in the Sand with Picasso: Relief Sculpture as Game in the Summer of 1930

David J. Getsy

Joseph Cornell’s Dangerous Games

Stephanie L. Taylor

Playing with Dada: Hannah Wilke’s Irreverent Artistic Discourse with Duchamp

Debra Wacks

Dick Higgins, Fluxus, and Infinite Play: An “Amodernist” Worldview

Owen F. Smith

1Subversive Toys: The Art of Liliana Porter

Florencia Bazzano-Nelson

Part II: Contemporary Artists’ Views on Play and Games in New Media and Public Practices

Dissolving the Magic Circle of Play: Lessons from Situationist Gaming

Anne-Marie Schleiner

Running and Gunning in the Gallery: Art Mods, Art Institutions, and the Artists Who Destroy Them

Jon Cates

Coda: Distinguishing Art from Play

Zigzagging with Full Stops from Play to Art

Ellen Handler Spitz

List of Contributors

Index


“The book's project is a worthy one; play as a source for the creative imagination has too long been secondary. One hopes that this slender volume of well-researched essays succeeds in its task.”

—A. J. Wharton, Choice

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