Category Archives: Collage History

Fart Enjoy — Syd Barrett (1946-2006)

Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by fmsbw

SYD BARRETT – HIS BOOK (1964/65) by Andrew Rawlinson I was at school with Syd in Cambridge. He was a couple of years younger than me, which is a lot at school, but he lived just round the corner from … Continue reading →

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Conrad Marca-Relli — History Lesson

Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 by fmsbw

Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000) was an important 20th Century painter and collage artist who often mixed collage with oil paint and other materials including plastics and metal. Born June 5, 1913 in Boston to Italian immigrants he was an early proponent … Continue reading →

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History Lesson — Martha Rosler (b. 1943)

Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by sfcollagecollective

Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn and studied at Brooklyn College (B.A. 1965) and the University of California, San Diego, where she received an M.F.A. in 1974. She has worked in various media including video, photography, installation, performance, and photomontage. … Continue reading →

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History Lesson — Hannah Höch (1889-1978)

Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 by sfcollagecollective

Hannah Höch was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, working primarily in collage and photomontage. She worked with Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, and George Grosz; along with fellow women artists Beatrice Wood, Sophie Tauber, and Baroness Else von Freytag … Continue reading →

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History Lesson–San Francisco Montage Artist Winston Smith

Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 by sfcollagecollective

“Winston Smith is single-handedly responsible for an entire generation’s graphic style.” — Frank Kozik “Master collage artist Winston Smith snips glorious and terrible tree flesh from the magazines of our mind and pastes it. A mind is a terrible thing … Continue reading →

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History Lesson — Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 by sfcollagecollective

Kurt Schwitters is one of the 20th Century’s best known collage artist. Born in Hannover, he studied art in Dresden then began to make collage work around the age of 30. It has been said that: He’d been denied membership … Continue reading →

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History Lesson — Collage work of Jean Arp

Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 by sfcollagecollective

Here are two historically important collages by Jean (Hans) Arp. “Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and “Untitled (Forest)”, a painted wood relief, which is … Continue reading →

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