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'The best introduction to collage and the critical literature it has inspired' Eye
Overview
From the seminal moment in 1908 when the young Picasso took a piece of brown card pasted with a ‘Magasins du Louvre’ label and converted it into a new kind of picture, collage has been at the very heart of modern art, leaving its mark on almost every art movement since, from Dada and Constructivism, via Surrealism, Pop and Situationism, to the digital techniques of today.
This book, the first comprehensive survey of the technique, explores in full the theoretical implications and political messages behind the work of the past century, explaining how the process was intimately linked to other revolutions in art practice. It covers the many off-shoots of collage, including assemblage, montage, photo-montage and décollage, as well as related practices such as détournement. Along the way it outlines a new vision of modern art springing from this most simple and democratic of techniques.
Reviews
'Sumptuous … erudite but never over-scholarly … a hugely enjoyable trip'
What’s On In London
'The fullest and best-written history of the subject so far. It covers a vast amount of ground and reproduces many unfamiliar works … excellent'
Frank Whitford, The World of Interiors
'The best introduction to collage and the critical literature it has inspired'
David Evans, Eye
Product Information
Book Details
Format: Paperback
Size: 27.5 x 21.6 cm
Extent: 224 pp
Illustrations: 206
Publication date: 14 August 2006
ISBN: 9780500286098
Contents List
Introduction; 1. Inventing Collage • 2. Paths to Construction • 3. Dada Dialectics • 4. Legacies of the Dada Mind • 5. The Surrealist Years • 6. The Political and the Personal: the 1930s • 7. New York Conversations • 8. California Collage • 9. Later Surrealism • 10. The Critique of Cities • 11. Collage in the Counter-Culture: the 1960s • Collage After Collage
About the Author
Brandon Taylor is currently Professor at Southampton Solent University. His previous books include Art of Today, Avant-Garde and After and Art of the Soviets.
