Title: Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 56)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521592046
ISBN 13: 9780521592048
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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 Andr� Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, Hugnet, Magritte, P�ret, Styrsky and others. Focusing on the recycling of art-historical icons, the parodic reworking of narrative clich�s, 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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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.

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