Surrealist Collage in Text and Image

Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse

Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary University of London), Michael Sheringham

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Cambridge University Press
08 June 2005

Collage & photomontage

Series: Cambridge Studies in French

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 André Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, Hugnet, Magritte, Péret, Styrsky and others. Focusing on the recycling of art-historical icons, the parodic reworking of narrative clichés, 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.

By: Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary University of London)
Series edited by: Michael Sheringham
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 56
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 486g
ISBN: 9780521619875
ISBN 10: 0521619874
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 08 June 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse

"""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"