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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Erin Edwards, âThe Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumousâ (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Description: At the beginning of the 20th century, surrealists such as AndrĂ© Breton and Man Ray played a game called âExquisite Corpse.â You can play it by drawing or by writing, and the rules are very simple. Letâs say youâre writing. You would write the beginning of a story or poem at the top of a piece of paper and, when you finished, fold the paper so that only the last line of the poem or story is visible. Then youâd hand the paper to another player, and this person would add to the story or poem knowing onl...