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Cut out : a feminist history of photo collage, montage and assemblage / Fiona Rogers.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rogers, Fiona, author.
Contributor:
Victoria and Albert Museum, publisher.
V&A Publishing, publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Victoria and Albert Museum--Catalogs.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Feminism in art.
Art, Modern--Political aspects.
Art, Modern.
Photocollage--Political aspects.
Photocollage.
Collage--Political aspects.
Collage.
Assemblage (Art)--Political aspects.
Assemblage (Art).
Women artists.
Women photographers.
Feminist aesthetics.
Genre:
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Physical Description:
239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), portraits ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Thames & Hudson in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2026.
Summary:
"Cut Out presents the previously untold relationship between photography, feminist art, and collage through the V&A's extensive collection of photography, spanning from the nineteenth century to the present day. Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage--a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women--as a resilient method within feminist and political art. Cut Out presents an expanded definition of collage and cutting techniques to encompass photomontage, assemblage, and the photogram. Tracing a lineage from nineteenth-century makers to contemporary practitioners, this fascinating volume covers Victorian album makers; modernist, surrealist, and Dadaist innovators; and radical, second-wave feminist artists. Thematic sections include profiles written by expert contributors on key individuals, including Hannah Höch, Dora Maar, and Lorna Simpson. Looking to the future as much as the past, Cut Out also reveals how the pioneering work of contemporary and digital artists continues to subvert dominant narratives and foster ever expanding forms of photographic collage. At a moment when photography and its history are being actively contested and reappraised, Cut Out is a reminder of its political power" -- Publisher's website.
Contents:
Introduction. Fragmented lives: the origins of femmage / Fiona Rogers
Femmage: waste not want not / Melissa Meyer in conversation with Maddy Henkin
Early pioneers. In focus: Lady Filmer / Elizabeth Siegel
Experimental forms. In focus: Hannah Höch / Matthew Biro
In focus: Dora Maar / Damarice Amao
Feminisms. In focus: Grete Stern / Tania Sanabria
In focus: Lorna Simpson / Alona Pardo
Reclaiming histories. In focus: Mickalene Thomas / Renée Mussai
Speculative futures. In focus: Wangechi Mutu / Pelumi Odubanjo
Homage to SCUMB / Justine Kirland
Notes
Further reading
Author and contributors' biographies
Acknowledgements
Picture credits
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index.
ISBN:
0500481121
9780500481127
OCLC:
1543520707

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