
Surrealist Collage in Text and Image
Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse
Elza Adamowicz(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. May 1998
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Hardback
264 pages
978-0-521-59204-8 (ISBN)
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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 Andre Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, Hugnet, Magritte, Peret, Styrsky and others. Focusing on the recycling of art-historical icons, the parodic reworking of narrative cliches, 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
695 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-59204-8 (9780521592048)
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Content
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Beyond painting; 2. Cutting; 3. Pasting; 4. Cocking a snook; 5. Between Fantomas and Freud; 6. Masking; 7. The future of statues? 8. An impossible mosaic; Notes; Bibliography; Index of surrealist collages; Index.