Surrealist Collage in Text and Image - Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse

Informationen zum Autor Elza Adamowicz is Professor Emerita of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London Zusammenfassung This book offers a new analysis of Surrealist collage! both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material! and as a subversive and creative strategy. Illustrating many of the collages under discussion! it offers close readings of individual collages and proposes a radical reassessment of Surrealism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Beyond painting; 2. Cutting; 3. Pasting; 4. Cocking a snook; 5. Between Fantômas and Freud; 6. Masking; 7. The future of statues? 8. An impossible mosaic; Notes; Bibliography; Index of surrealist collages; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Elza Adamowicz, Elza (Queen Mary University of London) Adamowicz, Adamowicz Elza
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619875
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61987-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history