{"id":26557,"date":"2024-01-31T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26557"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:45:35","slug":"the-exquisite-corpse-will-drink-the-new-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/01\/31\/the-exquisite-corpse-will-drink-the-new-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From One Dough (1996) by Martin Stejskal, Jan \u0160vankmajer, Eva \u0160vankmajerov\u00e1.<\/em><\/p>\n

From A Dictionary of Surrealism<\/em> by Jos\u00e9 Pierre (Eyre Methuen, 1974):<\/p>\n

Exquisite corpse.<\/strong> The most famous of the surrealist games takes its name from the opening sentence that materialized: “Le cadavre\u2014exquis\u2014boira\u2014le vin\u2014nouveau”<\/em> (1925) (The exquisite corpse\u2014will drink\u2014the new wine). It was produced by five players writing in turn subject, adjective, verb, object, complement, each folding over the paper so that the next player could not see what had been already written. The violent whiff of strangeness and the droll effects obtained by these verbal collages reappeared in the drawn “exquisite corpses” in which Surrealist poets and painters often combined. Despite the fact that each contribution\u2014especially in the case of painters\u2014is relatively identifiable, the total effect (mostly in the form of a “personage”) results from the combined elements. In this, the “exquisite corpse” can claim to have scored a victory for collective invention over individual invention and over the “signature”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nude (1926\u201327) by Yves Tanguy, Joan Mir\u00f3, Max Morise, Man Ray.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1927) by Andr\u00e9 Masson, Max Ernst, Max Morise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1928) by Man Ray, Andr\u00e9 Breton, Yves Tanguy, and Max Morise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1928) by Man Ray, Max Morise, Andr\u00e9 Breton, Yves Tanguy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1928) by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Mir\u00f3, Max Morise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1932) by Salvador Dal\u00ed, Gala Dal\u00ed, Valentine Hugo, Andr\u00e9 Breton.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (no date) by George Hugnet, Yves Tanguy, Germaine Hugnet, Jeanette Tanguy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Landscape (1933) by Valentine Hugo, Andr\u00e9 Breton, Tristan Tzara, Greta Knutson.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Figure (1934) by Andr\u00e9 Breton, Jacques H\u00e9rold, Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1935) by Esteban Franc\u00e9s, Remedios Varo, Oscar Dom\u00ednguez, Marcel Jean.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Exquisite Corpse (1938) by Andr\u00e9 Breton, Yves Tanguy, Jacqueline Lamba.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From One Dough (1996) by Martin Stejskal, Jan \u0160vankmajer, Eva \u0160vankmajerov\u00e1. From A Dictionary of Surrealism by Jos\u00e9 Pierre (Eyre Methuen, 1974): Exquisite corpse. The most famous of the surrealist games takes its name from the opening sentence that materialized: “Le cadavre\u2014exquis\u2014boira\u2014le vin\u2014nouveau” (1925) (The exquisite corpse\u2014will drink\u2014the new wine). It was produced by five … Continue reading “The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1029,18],"tags":[350,3102,13293,1464,13288,13289,13290,13292,13295,13244,375,13291,9969,10718,241,13294,13296,112,13287,10713,1431,87,6228,2575,3129,348],"class_list":["post-26557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","category-surrealism","tag-andre-breton","tag-andre-masson","tag-esteban-frances","tag-eva-svankmajerova","tag-gala-dali","tag-george-hugnet","tag-germaine-hugnet","tag-greta-knutson","tag-jacqueline-lamba","tag-jacques-herold","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-jeanette-tanguy","tag-joan-miro","tag-jose-pierre","tag-man-ray","tag-marcel-jean","tag-martin-stejskal","tag-max-ernst","tag-max-morise","tag-oscar-dominguez","tag-remedios-varo","tag-salvador-dali","tag-tristan-tzara","tag-valentine-hugo","tag-victor-brauner","tag-yves-tanguy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6Ul","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}