History of Collage: An Anthology of Collage, Assembly and Event Structures

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1975. Hardcover. VG/G, dj shows some rubbing, sticker residue on spine. Owner label on inside front cover.. Black illustrated dj. Yellow cloth. 192 pp. 12 color, 123 bw plates. A veritable encyclopedia on this topic. Valuable resource. Contents: In the beginning was the word : before modern art -- The legitimate birth of cubist collage : Braque, Picasso, Gris, 1907-14 -- A wild adolescence : the ramifications of cubism, 1912-20 -- Great expectations : futurism and the machine age, 1909-30 -- The will to social revolution : the Russian experiments, 1909-23 -- Collage comes of age : the anti-aesthetic of Dada, 1912-23 -- Collage and self-realization : surrealism, the art of fantasy and psychic exorcism, subjective truth and psychological realities, 1924 onwards -- Collage in the world at large : concrete art, the Bauhaus, visual propaganda, and the proliferation of collage as graphic communication, 1917-40 -- 'Isms' after the Second World War : abstract expressionism and the 'international style', junk and art brute, 1945-60 -- The electric supermarket : the contradiction of neo-Dada and pop art, environmental event structures, multiple art and kinetics, 1952-70 -- The medium is the massage and the thought is the deed : multi-media, fine art now, happenings, auto-destruction, events towards conceptual art, post-1960 -- Some thoughts for tomorrow. Includes bibliographical references (page 187) and index. (Inventory #: 2187)