Meaning of exquisite corpse | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

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

“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.”

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