Surrealist Collage in Text & Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse - Couverture souple

Adamowicz, Elza

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521619874 ISBN 13 : 9780521619875

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Adamowicz Elza

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: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521619874
• ISBN 13: 9780521619875
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 268