Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
David J. Getsy
Part I: Games and Play in Twentieth-Century Art History
From Judgment to Process: The Modern Ludic Field
Susan Laxton
The Duchamp Code
Gavin Parkinson
My Utopia: Play in Bauhaus Photography
Kevin Moore
Serious Play: Games and Early Twentieth-Century Modernism
Claudia Mesch
Surrealist Gaming: Rules and the Rest
Mary Ann Caws
Playing in the Sand with Picasso: Relief Sculpture as Game in the Summer of 1930
David J. Getsy
Joseph Cornell’s Dangerous Games
Stephanie L. Taylor
Playing with Dada: Hannah Wilke’s Irreverent Artistic Discourse with Duchamp
Debra Wacks
Dick Higgins, Fluxus, and Infinite Play: An “Amodernist” Worldview
Owen F. Smith
1Subversive Toys: The Art of Liliana Porter
Florencia Bazzano-Nelson
Part II: Contemporary Artists’ Views on Play and Games in New Media and Public Practices
Dissolving the Magic Circle of Play: Lessons from Situationist Gaming
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Running and Gunning in the Gallery: Art Mods, Art Institutions, and the Artists Who Destroy Them
Jon Cates
Coda: Distinguishing Art from Play
Zigzagging with Full Stops from Play to Art
Ellen Handler Spitz
List of Contributors
Index