’Pataphysics Unrolled
Price, Katie L. (Swarthmore College) / Taylor, Michael R. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.