A Book of Surrealist Games

177 Pages·1995·7.953 MB·English

by  Alistair Brotchie, Mel Gooding

A BOOK OF SURREALIST GAMES
Leonora Carrington
Max Ernst
Andre Masson
Marcel Duchamp COMPENSATION PORTRAITS
Pablo Picasso
Rene Magritte
Andre Breton
Benjamin Peret
TRANSLATIONS:
ALEXIS LY KIARD,
JENNIFER BATCHELOR
DESIGN:
JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
JEAN-LOUIS BEDOUIN, VINCENT BOUNOURE, ELISA BRETON,
ROGER CARDINAL, AURELIEN DAUGUET, RIKKI AND GUY
DUCORNET, AUBE ELLEOUET, DAVID GASCOYNE,
JEAN-MICHEL GOUTIER, PAUL HAMMOND, EDOUARD
JAGllER, ALEXIS LYKIARD, JOHN LYLE, MARCEL MARIEN,
ANTONY MELVILLE, RENE PASSERON, MICHAEL
RICHARDSON, ANTONY ROE, JEAN SCHUSTER, ARTURO
SCHWARZ, JEAN-CLAUDE SILBERMANN, RACHEL STELLA,
MICHEL ZIMBACCA, STEVEN ZIVADIN (VANE BOR).
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INCLUDING THE LITTLE SURREALIST DICTIONARY
COMPILED AND EDITED BY ALASTAIR BROTCHIE
EDITED BY MEL GOODING
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A BOOK OF SURREALIST GAMES
CONTENTS
SURREALIST GAMES, MEL GOODING
1. LANGUAGE GAMES
•A UTOMATISM
Automatic Writing __________________ 17
Simulation 22
•C HAIN GAMES
The Exquisite Corpse _________________ 25
The Game ofD efinitions 26
The Game of Conditionals 28
The Game of Syllogisms 29
The Game of Opposites 29
Echo Poems 30
The Game of One into Another 31
The Game of Variants 32
Translation Poems 32
The Game oflllot-Mollo 33
Parallel Stories 34
•OTHER WAYS OF MAKING TEXTS
To Make a Dadaist Poem ________________ 36
Found Poem 37
Breton Poem 38
To Make a Surrealist Story 39
The Method of Raymond Roussel 40
Directions for Use 42
2. VISUAL TECHNIQUES
•M ANIPULATING CHANCE
Automatic Drawing _________________ 49
Fumage 53
Frottage 55
Decalcomania 55
Tom Paper Collage 59
Some Other Automatic Techniques 59
•R E-ASSEMBLING REALITY
Surrealist Collage __________________ 60
Photomontage 64
Inimage 64