Drawings from The Exquisite Book by Mike Perry, Camilla Engman, Lab Partners, and Nick Dewar.

Back in January we posted about the upcoming release of a super-cool and super-ambitious project: The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game. We are thrilled to announce that the day we were so eagerly anticipating has finally arrived—The Exquisite Book is out!

Published by our friends at Chronicle Books (and with a forward by always-awesome-author Dave Eggers),
the book was inspired by, and draws its title from Exquisite Corpse, a practice made famous by the Surrealists in the 1920s; a sort of artists' parlor game. The Exquisite Book's official website explains the project as such:

The book is a modified version of the game, played by one hundred contributing contemporary fine artists, illustrators, designers and comic artists.

There are ten groups of ten artists who participated in the process. Each artist contributed one page to the book. The first artist was given a few words to inspire their drawing. Each of the following artists only saw the page that immediately preceded their own. Each artist used images (and optionally, words) to create the continuation to the story, and the inspiration for the next artist in line.

The image above, with four sequential drawings from the book, gives you a taste of how this idea manifests itself on paper, and of how unexpected, varied and fabulous the end results are.

While this project is incredibly fun and interesting on its own, what makes it even more exciting for us here at 20x200 is that four artists we've had the opportunity to work with were asked to participate! Kate Bingaman-Burt, Jill Bliss, Lisa Congdon and Mike Perry have all contributed pages.

You can also take a look at the complete (and very impressive) list of artists here. Be sure to check out this amazing project and grab your own copy.