{"id":1556,"date":"2025-09-07T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:45:15","slug":"fragmentary-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/fragmentary-forms","title":{"rendered":"Fragmentary Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fragmentary Forms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Freya Gowrley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presenting an expansive approach to collage and the history of art, Freya Gowrley explores what happens when overlapping fragmentary forms are in conversation with one another. She looks at everything from volumes of pilgrims\u2019 religious relics and Victorian seaweed albums to modernist papiers coll\u00e9s by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and quilts by Faith Ringgold exploring African-American identity. Gowrley examines the work of anonymous and unknown artists whose names have been lost to history, either by accident or through exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fragmentary Forms<\/em>, pages 276-277<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Featuring hundreds of beautiful images, Fragmentary Forms <\/em>demonstrates how the use of found objects is an important characteristic of this unique art form and shows how collage is an inclusive medium that has given voice to marginalized communities and artists across centuries and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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album of cut-paper flowers by W. Ellen
c. 1835. Yale Center for British Art. Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fragmentary Forms <\/em>offers a new, global perspective on one of the world\u2019s oldest and most enduring means of cultural expression, tracing the rich history of collage from its ancient origins to its uses today as a powerful tool for storytelling and explorations of identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ric Kasini Kadour reviewed Fragmentary Forms<\/em> in Kolaj 41<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong>
Fragmentary Forms<\/em>
by Freya Gowrley
10.5″x8.25″; 400 pages
ISBN 9798292520559
$60 USD
Published by Princeton University Press<\/a>, Princeton, New Jersey, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchase the book HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Freya Gowrley
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