Collage book.
"A conversation with John Stezaker" by David Lillington.
Notes: page 22, "Connection between childhood and collagist practice ... collage is a realm of play"
"(collage is) a way of living with available images by a process of making them one's own."
Page 27: "For 'nostalgic' read: reactionary, backward looking... it is a way of living with loss ... about the impossibility of return; a condition of exile."
Page 28: "collage is about the bringing together abstraction and particularity".
Page 31: (collage has) "a desire to expose and hold on to the seams whereas, in montage, the seam is hidden and universal".
Page 32: "What unifies all these practices is not just the literal ... gain significance."
(collage) "allows for interactions that he world around us has not yet performed."
"Where Does One Thing End and the Next Begin?" by Ian Monroe.
Page 35: Chimera as collage. "It is only when they are merged into a single body that the creature takes on a truly horrific character" Page 36: ergonomics, "modern manufacturing to melt seamlessly into the human body".
Page 39: Prosthetics and fetish discussed.
Page 41: "Edges provide us with an entry point with which to pry apart the illusion, a literal and metaphoric edge to lever against.".
"There are also illusions that attempt to obfuscate the edge, to erase its existence altogether".
Page 42: corrosive edges. "This is the general tendency of collage; to mix and merge elements, and to erode their 'individuality'"
City as collage discussed.
Construction/Abstraction
Page 47: intro to abstraction at the turn of the century. "Abstract art was ... an attempt to respond to the seismic changes of the time..."
Surrealism/Fantasy
Page 81: "Collage offers a retreat from logic and reason, transforming the familiar into the strange and the fantastic".
"Cheung's schizophrenic landscapes hint at an apocalyptic future of clashing realities and colliding dreamworlds".
Popular Culture/Mass Media
Page 105: claims 19th century ads are true beginning of collage.
"lay an ultimately arbitrary gesture; that of associating a product to a concept totally unrelated to the intrinsic qualities of the object in order to increase the appearance of exchange value".
re subversion: "For the Soviets ... collage played a vital role in the severcie of class struggle".
Situationists discussed.
Body/Identity
Page 153: "Constant adaptation and deferral".
"Represent the self as fractured"
"Alternate identities"
"Critique of the possibilities of gender and sexuality .. as modes of identification".
"notion of place"
Environment/Geography
Page 185: "Concerned ... with spacio-temporal activity, involved with the possibility of choreography and displacing collections of things in themselves".
"Collage resists any attempts to classify and categorize ... we might, then, see collage as a metaphor of construction that is also always an act of deconstruction".
"A conversation with John Stezaker" by David Lillington.
Notes: page 22, "Connection between childhood and collagist practice ... collage is a realm of play"
"(collage is) a way of living with available images by a process of making them one's own."
Page 27: "For 'nostalgic' read: reactionary, backward looking... it is a way of living with loss ... about the impossibility of return; a condition of exile."
Page 28: "collage is about the bringing together abstraction and particularity".
Page 31: (collage has) "a desire to expose and hold on to the seams whereas, in montage, the seam is hidden and universal".
Page 32: "What unifies all these practices is not just the literal ... gain significance."
(collage) "allows for interactions that he world around us has not yet performed."
"Where Does One Thing End and the Next Begin?" by Ian Monroe.
Page 35: Chimera as collage. "It is only when they are merged into a single body that the creature takes on a truly horrific character" Page 36: ergonomics, "modern manufacturing to melt seamlessly into the human body".
Page 39: Prosthetics and fetish discussed.
Page 41: "Edges provide us with an entry point with which to pry apart the illusion, a literal and metaphoric edge to lever against.".
"There are also illusions that attempt to obfuscate the edge, to erase its existence altogether".
Page 42: corrosive edges. "This is the general tendency of collage; to mix and merge elements, and to erode their 'individuality'"
City as collage discussed.
Construction/Abstraction
Page 47: intro to abstraction at the turn of the century. "Abstract art was ... an attempt to respond to the seismic changes of the time..."
Surrealism/Fantasy
Page 81: "Collage offers a retreat from logic and reason, transforming the familiar into the strange and the fantastic".
"Cheung's schizophrenic landscapes hint at an apocalyptic future of clashing realities and colliding dreamworlds".
Popular Culture/Mass Media
Page 105: claims 19th century ads are true beginning of collage.
"lay an ultimately arbitrary gesture; that of associating a product to a concept totally unrelated to the intrinsic qualities of the object in order to increase the appearance of exchange value".
re subversion: "For the Soviets ... collage played a vital role in the severcie of class struggle".
Situationists discussed.
Body/Identity
Page 153: "Constant adaptation and deferral".
"Represent the self as fractured"
"Alternate identities"
"Critique of the possibilities of gender and sexuality .. as modes of identification".
"notion of place"
Environment/Geography
Page 185: "Concerned ... with spacio-temporal activity, involved with the possibility of choreography and displacing collections of things in themselves".
"Collage resists any attempts to classify and categorize ... we might, then, see collage as a metaphor of construction that is also always an act of deconstruction".
