Surrealist Collage in Text & Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse: 56 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 56) - Softcover

Adamowicz, Elza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521619874 ISBN 13: 9780521619875

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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

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Review

"Here Elza Adamowicz offers an interestingly analyzed study of the various techniques of cutting, assembling, and pasting the parts that go to make up the kinds of collage, visual and verbal, constructed in surrealism, and...in dada before it. She is particularly good at the discussion of the subversive undermining of established narratives' and of organic wholes by the processes of substitution and displacement, ' the theoretical background for it, and the individual exmaples adduced to support her statements." Mary Ann Caws, L'Esprit Createur

Book Description

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521619874
• ISBN 13: 9780521619875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268