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Lance Letscher: Collage (Ut Press Fine Arts Series)

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"Lance Letscher: Collage" is a gorgeous, transformative love song to paper ephermera. Old books, album covers, hand-written notebook pages, and other examples of cultural flotsam and jetsam, are cut into strips and circles and wedges to make exquisite collages. The colors, textures, snatches of phrases, and bits of image swirl and cinch to create images that are bright and alive. This is a stunning book, beautifully produced, worth every dollar and then some.

Lance Letscher's amazingly varied approaches to paper collage based on the book form will keep you turning pages. Well worth the price. A beautiful coffee table addition.

I enjoyed seeing what can be done with torn up excercise books and material fished out of dumpsters behind second-hand bookshops. The colours and shapes created, sometimes set against a background of sepia shopping lists or old letters were quite beautiful. Circles transformed into wheels of colour, cascading down the page, but there was no information on how these effects were achieved, what tools were used; how the creative process took place. That was disappointng. But as a book to provide inspiration and ideas, I would recommend Lance Letscher's 'Collage'.

Lance Letschers work is rich and beautiful. This book does his work justice. It's a satisfying introduction to his collage work, well illustrated.