exquisite corpse

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — […]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. countable
    — 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.

词形变化

exquisite corpses plural

词源

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”).
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