The surrealist toy, or the adventures of the bilboquet. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The surrealist toy, or the adventures of the bilboquet. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The surrealist toy, or the adventures of the bilboquet
- Authors:
- Hopkins, David
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The role of the toy, as a source for visual surrealism, has hardly been considered before now and even within avant-garde studies the toy is only just beginning to be looked at as an exemplar for modernist/avant-garde art. A growing literature on play has begun to register the importance of the ludic in Dadaist practice. Yet the surrealist toy has remained under-examined. Toys as (predominantly) three-dimensional objects lend themselves particularly well to sculpture. This essay therefore brings the specificities of the toy, surrealism and sculpture together in a new alignment through study of the bilboquet, an eroticized toy popular in France during the early twentieth century. This toy was the subject of a bawdy joke between Marcel Duchamp and a friend and might have been Duchamp's first readymade.
- Is Part Of:
- Sculpture journal. Volume 28:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Sculpture journal
- Issue:
- Volume 28:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 28, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0028-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 175
- Page End:
- 192
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Subjects:
- Sculpture -- Periodicals
730.9005 - Journal URLs:
- http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121632/ ↗
http://www.sculpturejournal.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/sj.2019.28.2.3 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1366-2724
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- Legaldeposit
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