Cut & Paste: 21st-Century Collage

by Caroline Roberts, Caroline Roberts

Collage is at the cutting edge of visual design, and can be seen everywhere from advertisements, magazine editorials and fashion stories to street art, album covers, animation and website design.

Cut & Paste brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists, including Serge Bloch, Borsodi Bela, Sara Fanelli, Julian House, Christoph Niemann, John Stezaker and Sergei Sviatchenko.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

270 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2011

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Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really strong and interesting collection of modern collage art with a bunch of new discoveries for me--Hot damn, Eduardo Recife! Holy heck, Dani Sanchis! Sweet Polaroid action, Andy Ducett!
I also like how there are some works that stretch the usual materials and form of collage, like Craig Atkinson's folk art-like mixed media and Tsilli Pines's threaded beauties. And then my favorite, John Stezaker, has a nice spread as well, featuring some of his awesome Shadow series.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice discoveries in this book. I especially liked the work of Anu Tuominen, but there were a number of other artists I also went googling. Of course there was work that didn't appeal to me, and I am getting rather tired of women's bodies, whether they're being worshipped or being made fun of. One artist I was already familiar with is Eduardo Recife, but I felt the selection in this book hardly reflected his fabulousness. Still very nice collection to page through and be inspired by.

[Daniel Cushnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've had this book a long time. There are a few very good collages in it, but overall the pieces don't tend to be to my taste. I also have a book about the Bauhaus and I much prefer the ones in there. The main thing I took away from this collection: is that either the selection chosen by the editor is NOT the best of collage in the post-millenium, or that the medium might have lost its way enitrely. Perhaps it's neither and I just prefer mine a bit more grungey and distressed. I think that might be the case, because the featured artists clearly have talent. I think perhaps if I saw some of the works in real life their scale might redeem them. I have the paperback version and it's about one fifth smaller than a lot of my art books and that doesn't work in its favour.

[Antoinette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mijn favorieten: Philippe Jusforgues, Michael Lazarus, Pepe Mar, Javier Pinon en Anu Tuoninen. Jammer dat er zo weinig vrouwen instaan.

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved this collection of modern collages. I want to go make some art now(:

[Aaron the Pink Donut · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice collection-especial like the work of Victor Kaifas and Christoph neimann