Ecstatic Incisions: The Collages Of Freddie Baer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A striking collision of imagery and ideology, Ecstatic Incisions: The Collages of Freddie Baer presents the visually arresting and politically charged collage work of one of the most distinctive artists working within the radical underground tradition. Drawing from Victorian engravings, pulp illustration, and surrealist juxtaposition, Baer constructs dreamlike tableaux that disrupt the familiar and render the everyday deeply strange, weaving together anarchist philosophy, feminist critique, and anti-authoritarian sentiment into a single, unified visual language. With a preface by the celebrated writer and cultural theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson, this volume situates Baer's practice within a broader tradition of political art-making that stretches from Dada to punk. Baer's collages operate as visual manifestos — each image a carefully assembled argument against conformity, hierarchy, and the mundane tyranny of consensus reality. The work carries the raw, irreverent energy of the zine culture from which it emerged, yet achieves a sophistication and compositional rigor that rewards sustained attention. For those drawn to the intersection of art, politics, and the subversive imagination, this collection raises a provocative question: what other worlds become visible when you cut the old one apart?
Author: Freddie Baer
Format: Paperback
Published: 1992, AK Press
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A striking collision of imagery and ideology, Ecstatic Incisions: The Collages of Freddie Baer presents the visually arresting and politically charged collage work of one of the most distinctive artists working within the radical underground tradition. Drawing from Victorian engravings, pulp illustration, and surrealist juxtaposition, Baer constructs dreamlike tableaux that disrupt the familiar and render the everyday deeply strange, weaving together anarchist philosophy, feminist critique, and anti-authoritarian sentiment into a single, unified visual language. With a preface by the celebrated writer and cultural theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson, this volume situates Baer's practice within a broader tradition of political art-making that stretches from Dada to punk. Baer's collages operate as visual manifestos — each image a carefully assembled argument against conformity, hierarchy, and the mundane tyranny of consensus reality. The work carries the raw, irreverent energy of the zine culture from which it emerged, yet achieves a sophistication and compositional rigor that rewards sustained attention. For those drawn to the intersection of art, politics, and the subversive imagination, this collection raises a provocative question: what other worlds become visible when you cut the old one apart?