Exquisite corpse: surrealism and the Black Dahlia murder

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.