Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage

$60.00 at de Young Museum.

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today.While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Subsequent forms occurred in twelfth-century Japan with illuminated manuscripts that combined calligraphic poetry with torn colored papers. In early modern Europe, collage was used to document and organize herbaria…