Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse.(Review) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Rothwell, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 2000 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse. By ELZA ADAMOWICZ. (Cambridge Studies in French, 56) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv + 248 pp.

This book admirably fulfils its author's aim 'of (re)instating collage at the centre of surrealist practice' (p. 12), nicely complementing recent work on automatic creation. Elza Adamowicz elaborates a wide-ranging and pluralist discussion of the 'art'-form that has been defined as the 'fundamen...