Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Met Museum of Art, 86th St.& 5th Ave.: Victorian Photocollages

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

See the albums of photocollages of aristocratic Victorian women who debunk cultural attitudes of the time. Imaginary landscapes, surreal moments, displaced human heads, fanciful playing cards, dramatic shifts in scale of figures--some of this suggesting the fun and devices we find in Alice in Wonderland.

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