Collage Culture

Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3681-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 489 g

Reihe: Postmodern Studies

Collage Culture develops a comprehensive theory of the origins and meanings of collage and readymades in modern and postmodern art, literature, and everyday life. Demonstrating that the origins of collage are found in assembly line technologies and mass media forms of layout and advertising in early twentieth-century newspapers, Collage Culture traces how the historical avant-garde turns the fragmentation of Fordist production against nationalist, fascist, and capitalist ideologies, using the radical potential unleashed by new technologies to produce critical collages.

David Banash adeptly surveys the reinvention of collage by a generation of postmodern artists who develop new forms including cut-ups, sampling, zines, plagiarism, and copying to cope with the banalities and demands of consumer culture. Banash argues that collage mirrors the profoundly dialectical relations between the cut of assembly lines and the readymades of consumerism even as its cutting-edges move against the imperatives of passive consumption and disposability instituted by those technologies, forms, and relations.

Collage Culture surveys and analyzes works of advertising, assemblage, film, literature, music, painting, and photography from the historical avant-garde to the most recent developments of postmodernism.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fragments: Production, Consumption, and the Readymade
Invention: Newspapers, Advertising, and the Origins of Collage
Critique: Collage and the Politics of the Cut
Nostalgia: Collage, Collecting and the Paste
Gleaning: Everyday Life in Collage Culture
Conclusion: From the Twentieth-Century’s Cutting Edge to the Twenty-First-Century Copy
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index