{"product_id":"fragmentary-forms","title":"Fragmentary Forms","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691253749\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade binding\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Subsequent forms occurred in twelfth-century Japan with illuminated manuscripts that combined calligraphic poetry with torn coloured papers. In early modern Europe, collage was used to document and organise herbaria, plant specimens, and other systems of knowledge. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, collage became firmly associated with the expression of intimate relations and familial affections. \u003ci\u003eFragmentary Forms\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new, global perspective on one of the world's oldest and most enduring means of cultural expression, tracing the rich history of collage from its ancient origins to its uses today as a powerful tool for storytelling and explorations of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting an expansive approach to collage and the history of art, Freya Gowrley explores what happens when overlapping fragmentary forms are in conversation with one another. She looks at everything from volumes of pilgrims' religious relics and Victorian seaweed albums to modernist papiers colles by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and quilts by Faith Ringgold exploring African-American identity. Gowrley examines the work of anonymous and unknown artists whose names have been lost to history, either by accident or through exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing hundreds of beautiful images, \u003ci\u003eFragmentary Forms\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the use of found objects is an important characteristic of this unique art form and shows how collage is an inclusive medium t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41595038728325,"sku":"PR383673","price":156.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TIW03UK826QN.jpg?v=1776916832","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/fragmentary-forms","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}