Broken City

by Péter Horváth

Reminiscent of old-fashioned collages and inspired by the likes of Russian constructivism, Dada and John Heartfield, most of the elements employed by Canadian artist Peter Horvath hail from the '20s and '50s. Exaggerating the stark, high-contrast depression-era as well as a glowing, optimistic post-war euphoria, Horvath' s work remains eerily anonymous (not unlike a David Lynch movie). He infects his protagonists, terminally lost and confused.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2003