Playing with pictures : the art of Victorian photocollage /
"Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects - these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage explored in this marvelous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious co...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. : New Haven, Conn. ; London :
Art Institute of Chicago ; Yale University Press,
c2009
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Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Director's foreword / James Cuno
- Acknowledgments / Elizabeth Siegel
- Society cutups / Elizabeth Siegel
- The page as stage / Marta Weiss
- Photocollage, fun, and flirtations / Patrizia Di Bello
- Plates (In the drawing room; Diversions; Playing with pictures; Photographic images; Borrowed backdrops; Objects of affection; Patterning the page; "Curiouser and couriouser"; The animal kingdom; Mixed pickles)
- Artists and albums / [by Miranda Hofelt and Elizabeth Siegel]
- Index of artists and albums
- Director's Foreword / James Cuno
- Acknowledgments / Elizabeth Siegel
- Society Cutups / Elizabeth Siegel
- The Page as Stage / Marta Weiss
- Photocollage, Fun, and Flirtations / Patrizia Di Bello
- In the Drawing Room
- Diversions
- Playing with Pictures
- Photographic Images
- Borrowed Backdrops
- Objects of Affection
- Patterning the Page
- "Curiouser and Curiouser"
- The Animal Kingdom
- Mixed Pickles
- Artists and Albums / Miranda Hofelt and Elizabeth Siegel