Anna Gaskell (American, born 1969). Anagram, 2003.

Anna Gaskell (American, born 1969). Anagram, 2003.
12 x 21 1/2? (30.5 x 54.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2012 Anna Gaskell

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Selected works from the
38th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition
Exquisite Corpses:
Drawing and Disfiguration
Museum of Modern Art
14 March - 9 July
Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy (American, born France. 1900-1955), Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983), Max Morise (French, 1900-1973), and Man Ray (American, 1890-1976). Nude, 1926-27.

Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy (American, born France. 1900-1955), Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983), Max Morise (French, 1900-1973), and Man Ray (American, 1890-1976). Nude, 1926-27.
Composite drawing of ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paper. 14 1/8 x 9? (35.9 x 22.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

NEW YORK. IN A collaborative, chance-based drawing game known as the exquisite corpse, Surrealist artists subjected the human
body to distortions and juxtapositions that resulted in fantastic composite figures.  This exhibition considers how this and related
operations - in which the body is dismembered or reassembled, swollen or multiplied, propped with prosthetics or fused with nature
and the machine - recur throughout the twentieth century and to the present.  Artists from André Masson and Joan Miró, to Louise
Bourgeois and Robert Gober, to Mark Manders and Nicola Tyson,  distort and disorient our most familiar of referents, playing out
personal, cultural, or social anxieties and desires on unwitting anatomies.  If art history reveals an unending impulse to render the
human figure, as a symbol of potential perfection and a system of primary organization, these works show that artists have just as
persistently been driven to disfiguration. The exhibition is organized by Samantha Friedman, Curatorial Assistant, with Jodi
Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art.
Drawings Collection Exhibitions are made possible by Hanjin Shipping.
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983). Drawing – Collage, 1936. Crayon and decals on paper. 25 1/4 x 17 1/8? (64.0 x 43.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller. © 2012 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris George Baselitz (German, born 1938). Peitschenfrau, 1964. Ink on paper. 24 3/4 x 19? (62.9 x 48.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2012 Georg Baselitz Cadavre Exquis with Esteban Francés (Spanish, 1913-1976), Remedios Varo (Spanish, 1908-1963), Oscar Domínguez (French, 1906-1957) and Marcel Jean (French, 1900-1993). Untitled, 1935. Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper. 10 7/8 x 8 1/4? (27.3 x 20.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. F. H. Hirschland Fund. © 2012 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Steve Gianakos (American, born 1938). She Could Hardly Wait, 1996. Oil and ink on cut-and-pasted printed paper. 27 x 27 1/2? (68.6 x 69.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2012 Steve Gianakos Marcel Jean (French, 1900-1993). L’arbre à mains, 1935. Ink on paper. 12 7/8 x 9 7/8? (32.6 x 25 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Saidie A. May Fund. © 2012 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Mark Manders (Dutch, born 1968). Untitled, 2000. Pencil on paper. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4? (29.8 x 21 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased with funds provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Jill and Dennis A. Roach, Directors. © 2012 Mark Manders