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Cadavre Exquis / Exquiste Corpses

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Drawings known as Cadavre Exquis (the phrase means xe2x80x98exquisite corpsesxe2x80x99) which were the result of collaborative game-playing among members of the surrealist movement. Unlike many examples of such works, the participants of Tatexe2x80x99s Cadavre Exquis of c.1930 are known from an inscription on the reverse of the sheet, in Andrxc3xa9 Bretonxe2x80x99s hand, identifying them as Breton himself, the artist Valentine Hugo, the surrealist poet Paul Eluard and Eluardxe2x80x99s partner Nusch.

The technique of the Cadavre Exquis was discovered by members of the Surrealist movement around 1925. Based on a traditional parlour-game, it initially involved passing a piece of paper between a group of people who would each add a word secretly - typically, a noun, an adjective, a verb, an adverb, and an object xe2x80x93 before folding the sheet and passing it to the next player.

The name Cadavre Exquis derived from one of the first games which had produced the line xe2x80x98Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveauxe2x80x99 (xe2x80x98The exquisite corpse will drink the young winexe2x80x99). The sentences produced in this collective and experimental way were, as the leader of the surrealist movement Andrxc3xa9 Breton noted, xe2x80x98designed to provide the most paradoxical confrontation possible between the elements of speechxe2x80x99 and were appreciated by the surrealists for their disruption of everyday logic. Such unexpected combinations of ideas and images seemed to the surrealists to create fantastic imaginary worlds. Quickly the game was extended to visual imagery, where each of the participants would create a xe2x80x98bodyxe2x80x99 consisting - notionally at least - of head, chest and arms, torso, legs and feet.
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