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<\/a>Collage by Max Ernst from ‘Une semaine de bont\u00e9.’<\/font><\/p><\/div>Ladies and Gentleman — On the left,<\/em> we have a collage by Max Ernst<\/a> from Une semaine de bont\u00e9<\/a><\/em>, a surrealist graphic novel published in 1934. Ernst reportedly made the entire book of collages in three weeks. A few of his sources were identified<\/a> as illustrations from an 1883 novel by Jules Mary, Les damn\u00e9es de Paris,<\/em> and possibly a volume of works by Gustave Dor\u00e9. Ernst used scissors and paper. Below, we have a collage titled “One Trip Pony.” by Robert Schalinski<\/a>. He made it last month for a book by Wolf Pehlke<\/a> not yet published. Schalinski used digital tools as well as scissors and paper. “The process and the results can vary,” he says. “With paper you’re not in that 0-1-1-0 universum<\/em>.”<\/p>\n ‘One Trip Pony’ \u00a9 by Robert Schalinski (2018).<\/font><\/p><\/div>\n ‘Air Police on the coast’ by Norman Rubington. <\/font><\/p><\/div>Now, on the right,<\/em> we have a collage by Akbar Del Piombo (real name Norman Rubington<\/a>) from Fuzz Against Junk,<\/em> a graphic tale that satirizes “the narcotics brigade” with collages-cum-drawings created from 19-century engravings. Made before digital tools were available, the book was first published by Olympia Press<\/a> in 1961. Rubington also used extended captions<\/strong> to narrate the story. They describe, among other things, “Sudden deaths due to narcotics . . . “<\/strong> including below, on the right,<\/em> ” . . . the most hideous case of the swollen corpse: death induced by an overdose of heroin. Faced with an outbreak of criminality which reached Gargantuan proportions, the New York police, their back against the wall, had no recourse but [to] wire an urgent message to Sir Edwin Fuzz requesting his services to help them smash the drug ring responsible for all this mayhem.”<\/strong> Below on the left,<\/em> you can see a similar depiction of criminal mayhem by Max Ernst.<\/a><\/a>
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