Sculpture involontaire: enroulement élémentaire, obtenu chez un 'débile mental’[Involuntary Sculpture: Rudimentary [Paper] Roll Obtained from a Mentally Disabled Person]

Brassaï|Salvador Dalí

1932 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

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.

Artist

Brassaï|Salvador Dalí

Date

1932

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2001