Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object

From the "Waldman moves from the outrageous experiments of the Dadaists in the 1920s to the irreverent debunkings of the 1960s Pop artists to the provocative appropriation art of the 1990s; from the intricate towers and assemblages of the Russion Constructivists early in this century [20th] to the surprising piles of materials put together by such midcentury artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and John Chamberlain; from the cerebral and Freudian collages and objects of the Surrealists in the 1920s and 1930s to the probing conundrums posed by the conceptualists of the 1980s and 1990s. A lively book on lively arts, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object gives us a comprehensive and dynamic view of what are arguably the most important artistic developments of our time. 404 illustrations, including 100 in full color." Not forgotten, of course, are my favorites Joseph Cornell and Joseph Beuys. The Chapter titles Cubism, Futurism, The Russian Avant-Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Matisse, Abstract Expressionism, Assemblage & Pop Art, The New Object, Appropriation. 336 pages.