Texts by Dawn Ades, Michael Bracewell and John Stezaker in conversation with Daniel F. Herrmann and Christophe Gallois.
Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings. In this new volume, Stezaker started with found images from Hollywood's golden era.
John Stezaker: The Truth of Masks
John Stezaker is one of the most distinguished voices in the history of image-based collage.
Their purpose was to enchant the viewer-consumer, proposing a beautified, more transcendent or exciting reality, free of dreary routine, shabbiness and petty frustrations.As demonstrated most dramatically by his series called Love (2016), ...
John Stezaker's found images, collages and image fragments are most associated with cinematic imagery, however it is the other found-image sources which he has worked with over the past 30 years which is the focus of this publication; ...
Concentrating specifically on the portrait, John Stezaker's 'Masks' series reflects the artist's ongoing interest with the hidden face. Stezaker's long-term fascination with the image is translated into alterations, deletions, visual...
Accompanying full-colour reproductions, a new essay by Cecilia Järdemar discusses the series' ties to Surrealism, the portraits' power of attraction and the artist's interest in obsolescence.
British Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently.
Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the central themes in the art of John Stezaker, from capacities of collage to the current flow in an age of mass media.
An overview of John Stezaker's film still collages, this book showcases the evolution of the artist's relationship with a specific material.
This update will be published in full color and includes the newest waterjet safety technologies, methods, and equipment. Will also expand upon the information on shrouds, shielding, chocking, and grounding....
The expanded second edition of this popular collection of John Stezaker's 'Masks' features the development of the series over the artist's career.