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<b>An exploration of the relationship between games and art that examines the ways that both gamemakers and artists create game-based artworks.</b><p>Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games, Duchamp's obsession with Chess, and Fluxus event scores and boxes—to name just a few examples. Over the past fifteen years, the synthesis of art and games has clouded for both artists and gamemakers.
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- Author
- John Sharp
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262328210
- Category
- games
- Subjects
- Games, Sports, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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