Title & Author:

Everyday play / edited by Julian Rothenstein ; foreword by Andrey Kurkov.

Publication:

St. Lawrence Terrace, London : Redstone Press, 2022.
©2022

Description:

172 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A Redstone Book." --title page.
Subtitle from cover.
"Life, art, games, language"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: Life. Live like Gertrude Stein -- Live like the last of the Medici, Live like Philip Larkin, Drink like Hunter S. Thompson -- Live like Maya Angelou -- Eat like Mahatma Gandhi -- Live like Mark Wahlberg, Live like Djuna Barnes -- Live like a child in the 1950s -- Live like Anton Chekhov, Eat like Patricia Highsmith, Don't behave like Henry Bradshaw -- Live like W. H. Auden, Live like Marcel Proust -- Behave like Edith Wharton, Live like Peter the Great, Eat like Raymond Radiguet -- Don't behave like Bhalo, Behave like Jane Bowles -- Live like an elephant -- Live like Erik Satie -- Eat like Sophie Calle -- Cook like Stefan Haus -- Cook like the Cedilla -- Cook like Louise Bourgeois, Eat like Terry Frost -- Everyday breakfasts -- Room service by Will Hobson -- Become an aesthete -- Become a buddhist by Will Hobson -- Become an artist by Will Hobson -- Become Karl Lagerfeld by Sian Bonnell -- Embrace change -- 2: Art. Letter writing -- Found objects -- One minute sculptures -- Constraints: Draw with a blindfold, Draw while arm wrestling, Draw to order -- The exquisite corpse -- Postcard play -- Memory maps -- Daily play -- Picture poems -- Modifying photographs -- Toy-making -- Collecting -- Visual poems -- Transformed books -- Forgotten books -- Sorted books -- A book to be planted -- Proposals -- Mladen Stilinović -- Andrei Monastyrski -- John Giorno -- Carey Young -- Works of art transformed -- Art class assignments -- Activities: Elizabeth Demaray, Nina Katchadourian, Emma Kay -- Adam Dant's urban activities -- Selma Selman -- Anna and Bernhard Blume -- Kirsten Pieroth -- 3: Games. Dangerous games -- Cricket -- Dozens: a game of insults -- The comic game -- The book game, The edible book game, The dictionary game -- The portrait game -- The bad English game, Chinese whispers, The translation game -- Sekretiki -- Consequences, Fait divers, Fortified chess, The assassin's game -- Name games, The secrets game, The conversation game -- A dinner party game, The sentence game, Questions and answers -- The queuing game -- Writing games: The six-word memoir, Write a Twitter story, One-line poems, Writing to order, Become a plagiarist, Become an eavesdropper, Become a sage -- 4: Language. Aleksander Doba -- Great-ape language, synonyms -- 'English as she is spoke' -- 'Spain' by Charles Boyle -- "Angst' by Sylvia Libedinsky -- From 'A still life' by Thomas A. Clark, 'Speech' by Robert Creeley -- From 'Alice in wonderland' by Lewis Carroll -- 'Dear who gives a c**p' by Lydia Davis -- Useful phrases -- 'Crate' by Francis Ponge, 'Immortality' by Daghull Hammett -- 'Memoirs of a puddle' by István Örkény -- 'Improving my German' by Lydia Davis -- 'London' by Sophie Herxheimer -- From 'A few too many' by Joan Acocella -- 'Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder' by Myles Na Gopaleen -- From 'My last breath' by Luis Bunuel -- Groucho Marx.

Summary:

"Life must be lived as play," said Plato, and this book will help you rediscover the wonder in the weekly grind, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. Throughout history, philosophers, artists and writers have found liberation in taking play seriously. Everyday Play shows you how you can use creativity, games and the imagination to transform your life. earn how to be someone else for a day; explore how to draw a poem, paint a book and reorient your library; enjoy writers using constraints or languages they don't understand; play the Edible Book Game or become a living sculpture; become a writer and play word games to find new ways of saying what you mean. Everyday Play is the essential compendium of artists' games, philosophers' inquiries and manifestos against the banal. They will challenge our perceptions of work, rest and play, with contributions from, among others, Joan Acocella, Luis Buñuel, Lewis Carroll, Robert Creeley, Adam Dant, Lydia Davis, Jeremy Deller, Dashiell Hammett, Will Hobson, Nina Katchadourian, Andrei Monastyrski, Francis Ponge, Erik Satie and Mark Wahlberg." --Amazon.

ISBN:

9780995518186 paperback
0995518181 paperback

Subject:

Play.
Play in art.
Creative ability.
Arts.
Play and Playthings
Creativity
Jeu.
Jeu dans l'art.
Créativité.
play (recreation)
creativity.

Added entries:

Rothenstein, Julian, 1948- editor.
Kurkov, Andreĭ, writer of foreword.
Redstone Press, publisher.

Everyday play : a campaign against boredom.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315355
Call No.: 315355
Copy: 1
Status: Available