Surrealism at PlayIn Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite corpse drawings, Man Rays rayographs, or Joan Mirs visual puns, surrealists became