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Essential for ephemera aficionados, fans of Surrealism and proto-Surrealism and for anyone prone to spending more time in a museum's shop than in its galleries, The Stamp of Fantasy vindicates the postcard as a medium with a history as rich as the mediums it helped to foster, such as photomontage and mail art. In presenting the most fantastical postcard images from the early twentieth century, this book may be the opposite and complement to Martin Parr's famous Boring Postcards series, stuffed as it is with disembodied heads, hybrid humans, erotic imagery and drawn modification. If the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès had produced postcards (instead of films on a postcard scale), they might resemble these miniature works by diverse hands, selected from the esteemed collections of Peter Weiss and Gérard Lévy for the touring exhibition of the same name. The book tracks the overlap between so-called "fantasy" postcards and the avant-garde art of the 1920s and 1930s, principally Dadaism and Surrealism. Paul Eluard, André Breton and Salvador Dalí were enthusiastic collectors of fantasy postcards and Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, Man Ray and many others used them as material in their work. Marcel Duchamp's famed 1919 détournement of a "Mona Lisa" postcard, "L.H.O.O.Q," may be one of this book's guiding precedents, at least for drawing attention to the postcard per se--but plenty of anonymous artists contribute equally irreverent and inventive tweakings, as well as more hallucinatory amendments. The Stamp of Fantasy is a wonderful celebration of the small gesture, amateur inventiveness, folk Surrealism and art's most democratic form of reproduction.
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TheStamp of Fantasy: The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards. From the collections of postcards of Gerard Levy, Peter Weiss.
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The Stamp of Fantasy. The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards. From the collections of postcards of Gerard Levy / Peter Weiss.
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Condition: Neuf. Catalogue de l'exposition des collections de cartes postales photographiques de Gà rard Là vy et Peter Weiss au Fotomuseum Winterthur, au Musà e du Jeu de Paume / Hà tel de Sully, Paris ainsi qu'au Museum Folkwang à Essen. Textes de Clà ment Chà roux et de Ute Eskildsen. Neuf, sous film plastique d'origine. Seller Inventory # FO-0MIK-2N0D
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hardcover. Condition: Perfetto (Mint). From the collections of postcards of Gérard Lévy e Peter Weiss. Catalogo della mostra itinerante tenutasi presso: Winterthur, 2007/2008 - Parigi, 2008 - Essen, 2008. Prefazione di Ute Eskildsen, Urs Stahel, Marta Gili. Testi di Clement Chéroux. Numerose illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero. Bibliografia e Catalogo delle opere . Cm 30x30,5. pp. 216. . Perfetto (Mint). . . . All'inizio del XX secolo, molto prima del trionfo della stampa illustrata, le fotografie venivano diffuse su larga scala sotto forma di cartoline. Questo volume presenta l'eccezionale inventiva dell'industria della stampa di cartoline, che ha combinato elementi della cultura pop con l'immagine fotografica. Al centro c'è la splendida interazione tra le cosiddette cartoline fantasy e l'arte d'avanguardia degli anni 20 e 30, i dadaisti e i surrealisti. Per creare le curiosità visive delle cartoline-fantasia, i fotografi lavoravano con montaggio, doppia esposizione, distorsioni ottiche, primi piani e altri trucchi tecnici. Paul Eluard, André Breton o Salvador Dalí erano appassionati collezionisti di cartoline fantasy. Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, Man Ray e molti altri le utilizzarono come modelli per i loro lavori. Book. Seller Inventory # 0000000225629
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