Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.
Mixed media collages that are informed by Dadaist principles of chance and randomness, and the power of 'Fortune'
Dry point etchings from the Exquisite Corpse prints. Collection - TATE Collection, London
Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun", as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge")
Or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.
The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.")
André Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends in an old house at 54 rue du Chateau (no longer existing).
In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prevert, Benjamin Peret, Pierre Reverdy and Andre Breton. Others include Max Morise, Joan Miro, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, Rene Char. Even Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.
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PART A
- Found parts generated drawings
- Cut out a number of images from found forms
- Snip them apart
- Choose 7 parts
- Glue 6 into sketchbook
- With the 7th put onto postcard substrate
- Use each as the bases for an Exquisite Corpse drawing (medium = open) scale ( 5" x 7")
- Mail the 7th to
Professor Jen Pepper
Cazenovia College
22 Sullivan Street
Cazenovia NY 13035
(I will provide you with a stamp for your Mail Art work)
Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972 US)
Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.
assemblages
Jane Hammond
Jane Hammond
Project Guidelines
1. Make 5 exquisite corpse drawings from found collage material - think about composition onto the negative substrate
2. MAIL ART exhibition:
Make 1 exquisite corpse collage on supplied postcard and send to me at my campus box # (with message and first name only)
3. Fold a piece of paper into 4 equal horizontal parts. In collaborative groups of four, complete an exquisite corpse collage
4. Collaborative class media project
provided 6' x 4' canvas
Cut out "figures" from #3 and arrange on provided canvas and draw -- let your imaginations run wild!
Student Work
