Collage and Literature - The Persistence of Vision (Hardcover)

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism. Starting from Pablo Picasso's 1912 gesture, breaking the fundamental logic of representation, of pasting a piece of oilcloth onto a canvas, and moving up to Kenneth Goldsmith's 2015 reading of an autopsy report of an unarmed young black man shot by police (which he framed as a poem entitled Michael Brown's Body) this volume moves through a series of case studies encapsulating issues of juxtaposition and framing, the central ways identify collage. Its thesis is that collage-and, in fact, only collage-meaningfully overcomes formal and generic boundaries between the literary and the non-literary. The overwriting of these traditional boundaries happens in the service of collage's anti-narrative drive, a drive that may be, in turn, interruptive or destructive. The expansion of collage's horizons- broadly, to include the use of radical juxtaposition in the arts-reveals a surprisingly wide range of American artists and writers using the logic of juxtaposition as they imagine new worlds, disrupt accepted narratives about society and art, and create meaning through form as much as through paraphrasable content. In addressing a wide range of contested issues, recent artists realize the shocking force of collage. By recovering this shock, Collage and Literature restores collage to its multimedia origins in order to reveal its powerful and political affects.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Scarlett Higgins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-33147-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-138-33147-3
Barcode:	9781138331471

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