Sculpture involontaire: enroulement élémentaire, obtenu chez un 'débile mental’[Involuntary Sculpture: Rudimentary [Paper] Roll Obtained from a Mentally Disabled Person]
In 1932 Brassaï collected and photographed tiny castoff scraps of paper that had been rolled, folded, or shaped unconsciously by idle hands–readymade Surrealist objects that represent what Rosalind Krauss has described as "the automatic writing of the world." A selection of these images was published in the following year in the avant-garde magazine Minotaure, accompanied by captions written by Salvador Dalí.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sculpture involontaire: enroulement élémentaire, obtenu chez un 'débile mental’[Involuntary Sculpture: Rudimentary [Paper] Roll Obtained from a Mentally Disabled Person]
- Artist: Brassaï (French (born Romania), Brașov 1899–1984 Côte d'Azur)
- Collaborator: Captioned by Salvador Dalí (Spanish, Figueres 1904–1989 Figueres)
- Date: 1932
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 17.1 x 23.2 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2001
- Object Number: 2001.411
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Brassaï Succession – Paris
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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