With a sprawling interpretation of collage’s past and present definitions, this is a compendium of 44 contemporary artists working in the medium. Sourcing archival materials, family photographs, vernacular imagery, paint, scraps of paper, ceramics, fabrics, film and more, these artists harness these materials “as tools for survival, technologies for world-building and a means of radical deprogramming.” Artists include Ruth Asawa, Jay DeFeo, Deborah Roberts and Francesca Woodman.Choosing collage, Kurland argues, is an inherently political and contradictory method, as it allows artists to reframe and recontextualise all that we know. She asks us to consider collage as an active process: breaking things apart, centering the margins and forging new structures. With full-color plates of work by each artist along with Kurland's writing contextualizing its place in the canon, this book serves as a historic retelling of art history within the context of collage and the artists on the edge of the medium.

Artists include: Ruth Asawa, Vija Celmins, Philo Cohen, Jay DeFeo, Leslie Hewitt, Kiki Kogelnik, Wangechi Mutu, Frida Orupabo, Wendy Red Star, Deborah Roberts, Keisha Scarville, Gwen Smith, Pamela Sneed, Lorna Simpson, Hannah Wilke, Francesca Woodman.

Details:

• Author: Kurland, Justine
• ISBN 9798218534264
• Published by lumber room
• Hardback 232 pagesm, 75 colour and 17 b/w illustrations
• Dimensions: 26 x 20.3 cm