CUT AND PASTE: 400 YEARS OF COLLAGE (NAT GALLERIES SCOTLAND)

Collage is one of the most popular and pervasive of all art-forms, yet this book, accompanying an exhibition at the National Galleries Of Scotland in 2019, was the first historical survey ever published on the subject. Featuring over 200 works, ranging from the 1500s to the present day, it offers an entirely new approach, encompassing cut-and-pasted paper, photography, patchwork, film and digital technology. It traces the origins of collage back to books and prints of the 1500s, through to the boom in popularity of scrapbooks and do-it-yourself collage during the Victorian period, then through Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. It reveals how collage became the technique of choice in the 1960s and 1970s for anti-establishment protest, and in the present day is used by millions of us through digital devices. Collage is one of the most popular and pervasive of all art-forms, yet this book, accompanying an exhibition at the National Galleries Of Scotland in 2019, was the first historical survey ever published on the subject. Featuring over 200 works, ranging from the 1500s to the present day, it offers an entirely new approach, encompassing cut-and-pasted paper, photography, patchwork, film and digital technology. It traces the origins of collage back to books and prints of the 1500s, through to the boom in popularity of scrapbooks and do-it-yourself collage during the Victorian period, then through Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. It reveals how collage became the technique of choice in the 1960s and 1970s for anti-establishment protest, and in the present day is used by millions of us through digital devices.