The Art of Collage - Selected Works on Paper by Cecil Touchon PDF Download

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Ontological Museum Pub
ISBN: 9780578026169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This nearly 200 page book is lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty full color collages by Cecil Touchon created between 2004-2009. Touchon is widely recognized as a master of the art of collage. Touchon's work is found in prestigious museum and corporate collections around the world. Touchon is also the founding director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction a wing of the Ontological Museum - his over-arching 'Total Art' project.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132987417X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This is a catalog of works by Cecil Touchon created in the year 2015. This publication is something of a catalogue raisonne for the year. Very few photographic works are included other than images that document my artistic activity. Publishable photos may be found in a separate catalog. Otherwise, this book has almost every hand-made art work created during the year of 2015 including paintings, collages, drawings, sketches, and correspondence works. There may be a doodle here and there or a few unfinished works that have not be included, but this document accurately records the chronological order of at least 98% of the artwork for the year.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781365877667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This is a catalog of works by Cecil Touchon created in the year 2016. This publication is something of a catalogue raisonne for the year. Very few photographic works are included other than images that document my artistic activity. Publishable photos may be found in a separate catalog. Otherwise, this book has almost every hand-made art work created during the year of 2014 including paintings, collages, drawings, sketches, and correspondence works. There may be a doodle here and there or a few unfinished works that have not be included, but this document accurately records the chronological order of at least 98% of the artwork for the year. Also included is documentation of exhibitions that Touchon was in or curated as well as collage poetry that was created over the course of the year. This document is intend to be a raw recording of work without any editing and represents a diary-like document of the artistic thought process.

Author: Randel Plowman
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781600591082
Category : Assemblage (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Collage is the perfect art form---spontaneous, forgiving, expressive, descriptive, impetuous, and expansive."---Lynne Perrella --Book Jacket.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780359977642
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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In October 2013 Rosalia and Cecil Touchon spent a month in Paris, France. While there, Touchon collected paper and made 80+ collages in 30 days. Also include are related photographs taken in Paris and asemic writing as well as examples of several paintings made based on this set of collages.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781678135485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The first volume of a four volume set covering the creative work of Cecil Touchon for the year 2019. During the course of the year Touchon produced a diverse body of work including paintings, collages and works on paper.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Post-Asemic Press
ISBN: 9781732878891
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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The current permutation of The Reader, originally envisioned as a black and white book, expanded in size and breadth to its current full color version to take into account the range of expression in Touchon's asemic explorations spanning forty years of works on paper including images from Touchon's unpublished sketchbooks. The first section of the book primarily contains palimpsest based asemic writing originally intended for mail art correspondence in which Touchon overwrites texts as found in 19th and early 20th century antique poetry books, a book of sermons, farm journal pages, a postcard, a grade school autograph book page, a sheet of music, a page from a vintage high school chemistry workbook and old invoices. Using these found papers collected for possible collage material, Touchon retains and uses the structure on the page and the patinated paper as inspiration for these asemic works often overwritten with india ink and quill pen. Following these are selected typographic abstraction works from the Fusion Series, Touchon diary-like ongoing series of collage works begun in 1983 and continuing to the present. In these works Touchon uses a wide ranging body of materials, approaches and techniques to produce these poetic works that explore figure and ground relationships and a variety of compositional strategies. These collages become studies for Touchon's paintings. In the midst of this group are a series of asemic 'songs' on torn brown paper using colored pens, pencil shading and white pencil highlighting that express the idea of visual musicality. At the end of the typographic collage works there is the image of a labyrinthian network of overlapping white lines over a black void that seem to float on multiple levels. This opens the way to a set of works of brush and ink from 2009 on the pages of a single antique journal where the markings are painted onto the leaves of paper and after a few moments the pages were held under running water in the kitchen sink. Whatever ink had dried remained on the page leaving gray ghost marks where the ink had been washed away. The book concludes with a variety of works from the late 1970's examining Touchon's early mark making based on language or visual musicality. Taken as a whole, this sampling of works across forty years of Touchon's oeuvre reminds one of a quote from the 1949 'Lecture on Nothing' by John Cage: "I have nothing to say and I am saying it..." but in Touchon's case he possibly is saying nothing about Something; perhaps a something so transcendent that common words cannot speak of it, something so vast that words crumble into gibberish and collapse into an unutterable silence. Some of the titles of previous exhibitions of Touchon's work suggest this such as: 'Beyond Words', 'Reduced to Silence' or 'The Unspoken Remains'. Yet Touchon's works are not nihilistic in nature. They could be said to be meaningless though clearly not purposeless. Touchon has said that his interest is in expressing 'the underlying universal harmony of all things'. One has the impression when studying these works that literary meaning has been removed or obfuscated but in Touchon's view he sees his work as liberating language from its work as bearer of meaning and by extension liberating the reader from the work of deciphering meaning and from the obligation of being literate when enjoying the works purely for their aesthetic value. In a world whose population is engulfed in a deluge of information that we must continually navigate, these works offer a small oasis in which one might be refreshed along the seemingly endless journey over the shifting sands of data on the horizons of which can only be seen mirage and simulacrum.

Author: Robert Craig Bunch
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494087
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from formative influences and inspirations to their common engagement with found materials. Beyond the art itself, no source is more primary to understanding art and artist than the artist’s own words. After all, who can speak with more authority about the artist’s influences, motivations, methods, philosophies, and creations? Since 2010, Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty-four of Texas’ finest artists, who have responded with honesty, clarity, and—naturally—great insight into their own work. None of these interviews has been previously published, even in part. Incorporating a striking, full-color illustration of each artist’s work, these absorbing self-examinations will stand collectively as a reference of lasting value.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781312773769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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A catalog of works completed during the year 2014 by artist Cecil Touchon arranged chronologically. The catalog includes paintings, collages, drawings, poetry, exhibition photos and interviews.

Author: Cecil Touchon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781300597360
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This publication is something of a catalogue raisonne for the year. Very few photographic works are included other than images that document my artistic activity. Publishable photos may be found in a separate catalog. Otherwise, this book has almost every hand-made art work created during the year of 2012 including paintings, collages, drawings, sketches, and correspondence works. There may be a doodle here and there or a few unfinished works that have not be included, but this document accurately records the chronological order of at least 98%% of the artwork for the year. Also included are documentation of exhibitions that Touchon was in or curated as well as collage poetry that was created over the course of the year.