{"product_id":"from-diversion-to-subversion-9780271037035","title":"From Diversion to Subversion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Far too often the seriousness of high art has been invoked at the expense of compelling art’s sheer gratuitousness, irrepressible impertinence, and spontaneous playfulness. A welcome and particularly bracing overturning of this staid approach is David J. Getsy’s \u003ci\u003eFrom Diversion to Subversion\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of lucid essays by established and emerging scholars, which focuses insightfully on the oxymoronic turns of serious humor, games played in earnest, and ludic research.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Robert Hobbs,Virginia Commonwealth University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Getsy’s anthology is a strong piece of work, with older theories of play marshaled not to justify the fun house that the art world has become in our day, but to remind us of how deeply modernists have engaged with a range of ludic possibilities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jed Perl \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book's project is a worthy one; play as a source for the creative imagination has too long been secondary. One hopes that this slender volume of well-researched essays succeeds in its task.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—A. J. Wharton \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid J. Getsy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Games and Play in Twentieth-Century Art History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Judgment to Process: The Modern Ludic Field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Laxton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Duchamp Code\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavin Parkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Utopia: Play in Bauhaus Photography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerious Play: Games and Early Twentieth-Century Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudia Mesch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrealist Gaming: Rules and the Rest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ann Caws\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying in the Sand with Picasso: Relief Sculpture as Game in the Summer of 1930\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid J. Getsy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Cornell’s Dangerous Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie L. Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying with Dada: Hannah Wilke’s Irreverent Artistic Discourse with Duchamp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebra Wacks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDick Higgins, Fluxus, and Infinite Play: An “Amodernist” Worldview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOwen F. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1Subversive Toys: The Art of Liliana Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlorencia Bazzano-Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Contemporary Artists’ Views on Play and Games in New Media and Public Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDissolving the Magic Circle of Play: Lessons from Situationist Gaming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Schleiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning and Gunning in the Gallery: Art Mods, Art Institutions, and the Artists Who Destroy Them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Cates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda: Distinguishing Art from Play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZigzagging with Full Stops from Play to Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Handler Spitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090668515671,"sku":"9780271037035","price":59.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271037035.jpg?v=1762273008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-diversion-to-subversion-9780271037035","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}