Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse - Couverture rigide

Adamowicz, Elza

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521592046 ISBN 13 : 9780521592048

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

A new analysis of Surrealist collage in France, leading to a radical reassessment of Surrealism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. She considers verbal collage, pictorial collage, and the hybrids they generate, and discusses the works of Max Ernst and André Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, Hugnet, Magritte, Péret, Styrsky and others. Focusing on the recycling of art-historical icons, the parodic reworking of narrative clichés, the concept of defamiliarisation of the banal, or the relations between part bodies and totalities, she offers close readings of individual collages, and links specific aspects of collage practice to central issues of surrealist aesthetic and political thought. Throughout this well illustrated study Adamowicz confronts the 'monstrous' nature of collage, grounded on excess and composed of irretrievable fragments and hovering signs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521592046
• ISBN 13: 9780521592048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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