1st Edition

Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper

Edited By Sascha Bru Copyright 2024
262 Pages 92 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 92 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 92 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more). With its many collages and photomontages, the historic avant-garde is generally considered to have transformed paper from a mere support into an artistic medium and to... Read more

Part 1 Paper Matters

1. Painting White Paper White: Whiteness in Pablo Picasso’s Papiers Collés

Emmanuelle Hincelin

2. From Tearing to Infra-Thin: Paper, Materiality and Metaphor in Arp, Picabia and Duchamp

David Hopkins

3. Joan Miró’s Collages: "A Tribute to Bad Taste?"

Elza Adamowicz

Part 2 Paper Community

4. Medium, Platform, Art Form: Avant-Garde Experiments with Paper in the Original Print Portfolio

Fiona Piccolo

5. Avant-Garde by Mail

Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe

6. Paper Exhibitions: The Magazine as Exhibition Catalogue

Lori Cole

Part 3 Paper Transfer

7. Monochrome Harmony: Black-and-White Work on Paper in Belgian Constructivism

Sarah Eycken

8. Making Strange: Hirschfeld-Mack, Klee, the Monoprint, and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

Jane Eckett and Andrew McNamara

9. "The most burning question for contemporary thinking about art": Art Competitions and the Discourse on Painting in Reproduction in Weimar Germany

Anne Reimers

10. Transparency on Paper: Imagining Glass Architecture from Taut to Eisenstein

Tyrus Miller

Part 4 Paper Critique

11. Protean Papers: Material Transformations in German Paper and Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Drawings and Prints

Erin Sullivan Maynes

12. Steadfast Matter: Paper’s Affects

Sabine T. Kriebel

13. The Treason of the Clerks: Accounting for Paris Dada Paperwork

Trevor Stark

14. Parade Albums and Censorship in the Soviet Union

Viola Hildebrand-Schat

 

Biography

Sascha Bru is a professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven, Belgium.