Introduction: A death and its aftermath -- Surrealism : damaged muses and mischievous mannequins -- Man Ray, a subversive vision -- Minotaur and minotaure -- Dreams of love and death -- Exquisite corpse : a literal reenactment? -- After the murder -- The L.A. avant-garde in the 1940s -- Marcel Duchamp and the Etant donnés, pt. 1 -- William Copley, surrealist confidante -- Marcel Duchamp and the Etant donnés, pt. 2 -- Afterword: Into the labyrinth -- Appendix I: Los Angeles 1935-1950, a web of connections -- Appendix 2: Exquisite corpse timeline.
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