Fragmentary forms : a new history of collage / Freya Gowrley.

Main entry:

Gowrley, Freya, author.

Title & Author:

Fragmentary forms : a new history of collage / Freya Gowrley.

Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 380-390) and index.
Introduction -- New material possibilities -- Divine collections -- Knowing and owning the world -- Material proliferations -- Desire and devotion -- Craft into canon -- Objects of modernity -- Radical possibilities -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Subsequent forms occurred in twelfth-century Japan with illuminated manuscripts that combined calligraphic poetry with torn colored papers. In early modern Europe, collage was used to document and organize herbaria, plant specimens, and other systems of knowledge. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, collage became firmly associated with the expression of intimate relations and familial affections. Fragmentary Forms offers a new, global perspective on one of the world's oldest and most enduring means of cultural expression, tracing the rich history of collage from its ancient origins to its uses today as a powerful tool for storytelling and explorations of identity. Presenting an expansive approach to collage and the history of art, Freya Gowrley explores what happens when overlapping fragmentary forms are in conversation with one another. She looks at everything from volumes of pilgrims' religious relics and Victorian seaweed albums to modernist papiers collés by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and quilts by Faith Ringgold exploring African-American identity. Gowrley examines the work of anonymous and unknown artists whose names have been lost to history, either by accident or through exclusion. Featuring hundreds of beautiful images, Fragmentary Forms demonstrates how the use of found objects is an important characteristic of this unique art form and shows how collage is an inclusive medium that has given voice to marginalized communities and artists across centuries and cultures" -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780691253749 (hardcover)
0691253749 (hardcover)

Subject:

Collage History.
Decoupage History.

Form/genre:

Art criticism.
Illustrated works.
Critiques d'art.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320530
Call No.: 320530
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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