What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?
09-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com

What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

How do artists get out of their own heads and just play? The Surrealists had some fantastic answers to this question. Lovers of chance, surprise, and the bizarre, the early 20th-century group had a cache of games that they used to tap into the unconscious and foster collaborative creativity. Exquisite corpse was among the most popular of the Surrealist games and is still widely enjoyed to this day.In exquisite corpse (or cadavre exquis), participants take turns drawing sections of a human body o
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