Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes’s (“ree-buh-MON deh-SEN-yuh’s”) play Blow Your Noses was performed at a show titled for a “Bearded” one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, one of which is the last word in the English-language title of a play whose characters are named for body parts like Mouth, Ear, and Eyebrow.
ANSWER: hearts [or cœur; accept The Gas Heart or The Gas-Operated Heart or Le Cœur à gaz; accept Bearded Heart or Le Cœur à barbe]
[10e] Tristan Tzara performed his play The Gas Heart at the Bearded Heart show, which aimed to highlight this avant-garde art movement whose name supposedly derives from the French word for “hobby horse.”
ANSWER: Dada [or word forms like Dadaism or Dadaist]
[10m] The role of Eyebrow in The Gas Heart was originated by Philippe Soupault (“soo-POH”), who wrote The Magnetic Fields with André Breton using this technique. Breton defined Surrealism as a “pure psychic” form of this technique.
ANSWER: automatic writing [or automatism; prompt on randomness or chance or improvisational writing; reject “exquisite corpse”]
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