The Ends of Collage

The Ends of Collage is an anthology of essays on the theme of collage and its legacies. The book attempts to survey different approaches to- and definitions of collage and the role of this medium in two crucial historical moments: its emergence in the early decades of the 20th century, and the introduction of digital media during the postmodern moment of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book includes full length writings by theorists, historians, and artists including Yuval Etgar (The Ends of Collage), Herta Wescher (The Forerunners), Clement Greenberg (Collage), Louis Aragon (The Challenge to Painting), Max Ernst (Beyond Painting), Elza Adamowicz (Towards a Definition of Surrealist Collage), Hans Arp (Collage), Hannah Höch (On Collage), Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (From Detail to Fragment: Décollage Affichiste), Brandon Taylor (The Cutting Edge), Groupe Mu (Twelve Fragment to Take Off [In 40,000 Signs]), John Stezaker (Cutting and framing), Craig Owens (The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism), Douglas Crimp (Pictures), Richard Prince (Practicing Without A License 1977), Martha Rosler (Image Simulations, Computer Manipulations, Some Considerations), Sherrie Levine (Statement), and Ali Smith (On Edge). The Ends of Collage was first published on the occasion of a two part exhibition at Luxembourg & Dayan, New York and London, bearing the same title. The book was edited by Yuval Etgar.