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From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art

From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art

Getsy, David J.

Paperback

Series: Refiguring Modernism, Book 16

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 0271037032
ISBN13: 9780271037035
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Feb 15 2011
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.78
Height: 0.72 Width: 8.05 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Games and play occupied a central, if misunderstood, role in modern art in the twentieth century. Many art-historical narratives have downplayed the ways in which artists returned to play and to games as analogues to art practice, as metaphors for creativity, or as models for art criticism. The essays collected in this volume investigate the fundamental importance of supposedly nonserious activity and attend to the ways in which artists used play and games in order to reconsider their practice and to expand their critical strategies. With subjects ranging from early twentieth-century manifestations of games and play in Surrealism, Duchamp, Picasso, and Bauhaus photography to their repercussions in Fluxus, performance, public practice, and new media, these essays establish the diversity and potential of games and play and point toward an alternate trajectory in the development of modern art.

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