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October 22, 2003
Exquisite corpse
An MTV feature caught my attention as it shares its name with a novel I read several years ago. The term originates in a surrealist game...
Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution. The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 22, 2003 09:44 AM