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Collage Culture

Date
2011
Publisher
JRP / Ringier Kunstverlag
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
ISBN
978-3-03764-119-4
Size
15.9 × 22.9 × 0.5 cm
Length
96 
Description

Collage, which began as an art meant to confound the brain with its disparate components, has jumped the flat surface, so that almost all musicians, designers, writers and bloggers might today be described as collage artists. “Collage Culture” contains two essays, buttressed by artworks and vividly typeset by Brian Roettinger.

The first essay, by Mandy Kahn, chronicles collage’s original forays into the realms of music, fashion, design, literature and architecture, with special attention paid to the birth and rise of sampling and mash-up in music. It will postulate why collage has become the it-expression of the new century, with an exploration of how the previous five decades in particular were, culturally, each a reaction against what preceeded them. The second, by Aaron Rose, examines how our current subcultural aesthetic is an amalgamation of those from movements of the 20th century, incorporating visual aspects from punk, new wave, the beats, and the hippie movement, but only externally—so that meaning, politics and message have been neutered out. What we’re left with is a collage of visual references without the guts they once had, and a generation of kids wearing clothes that express their common dissent, but without knowledge of what they are against—or, more importantly, what they are for.

An additional section of sixteen color pages includes original works of art created especially for the book by graphic designer Brian Roettinger, who, with the help of artist/programmer Chandler McWilliams, compiled 25 rules for collage-making and translated those rules into a computer application. The sixteen collages produced by the application make up the book’s center section.

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