Sculpture involontaire: enroulement élémentaire, obtenu chez un 'débile mental’[Involuntary Sculpture: Rudimentary [Paper] Roll Obtained from a Mentally Disabled Person]
Brassaï French, born Romania (Transylvania)
Captioned by Salvador Dalí Spanish
Not on view
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.
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