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exquisite corpse

noun

Etymology

Calque of French cadavre exquis. First coined in 1925 by surrealists André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy in a similar manner to consequences; the first example was constructed from the following prompt: Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau (“the exquisite corpse will drink new wine”).

  1. derived from cadavre exquis

Definitions

  1. A collective art game in which several collaborating artists assemble a sentence or…

    A collective art game in which several collaborating artists assemble a sentence or image, usually by following a prompt, or being allowed to see the only last contribution.

    • […]had collaborated on the Surrealist game of cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), in which artists made collective collages of words or images.

  2. A sentence or image created as a result of this game.

    • Breton insisted that the collective endeavor to compose an exquisite corpse leads to a pool of epiphanies, analogies, connections that would have been impossible otherwise.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exquisite corpse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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