Tuesday, October 13, 2015

OUGD601 / COP 3 / Reading / 'Cutting Edges'

Intro - James Gallacher

'[Collage is] a true reflection of the world we live in today.'

'[Collage is] all about the recycling, reinterpretation and reprocessing of our collective past, present and futures.'

'...thanks to Google and sites like Flickr and Tumblr, collage artists now have an endless resource for images to alter both digitally and by hand.'

A Brief History of the Twentieth Century Collage - Dr. Silke Krohn


'Collage as an art form first appeared in the work of Georges Braque in the early twentieth century.'

Braque, Picasso and Gris / Cubism.

Futurists /

Carlo Carra - 'Manifesto for Intervention'.

Kazimir Malevich - 'Still Life with Mona Lisa'

Dada /

Marcel Duchamp - 'Corrected Readymades'.

'the law of chance, which became a key term for the dadaists.'

'...for the first time the collage was seen as an autonomous art form.'

Man Ray - 'Rayograms'

Kurt Schwitters - 'He deformed, smoothed, bent, covered, or painted over all sorts of waste materials like wrappers, posters and tickets.

Surrealism /

Inspired by Freud's dream analysis.

Automatic Writing


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