9781905464111 - John Stezaker: Masks (2 Ergebnisse)

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Slight tan to page edges. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> It is not difficult to provide a description of the basic composition and general effect of any one of the numerous photomontages produced over the past quarter of a century or so by John Stezaker, to which he refers collectively as the Masks. A single, standard-size vintage picture postcard, sometimes in colour, some-times not, depicting a landscape is superimposed on a somewhat larger, black-and-white photographic publicity portrait of a film actor or actress of modest repute from the 1950s or 1960s, occluding almost all of his or her face. The precise position of the postcard is, in each individual case, evidently dictated by a partial formal congruity, generally a correspondence of line or lines, between the otherwise incongruous content of the two photographs. The continuity of the sweep of a hairline, the curl of a lip, the squint of an eye, or the curve of a jaw with the lineaments of a cascading waterfall, a natural rock formation, or a hill-top treeline, invites the viewer's gaze t.