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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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"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

Table of Contents
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.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/17/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521619875, 978-0521619875
      ISBN10: 0521619874
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade 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

      Table of Contents
      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.

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