Railroad Collage
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Railroad Collage is a controversial mixed media
collage
produced by Boris Lurie
in 1959 which superimposed a pin-up girl
onto a well-known liberation
photograph, which featured a flatbed of stacked with corpses, juxtaposing the American consumer culture with the Holocaust. The collage which is considered to be an elaboration of Lurie's earlier work, Flatcar Assemblage by Adolf Hitler, is considered to be Boris Lurie
most notorious and controversial work.
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
produced by Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for art leading to social action...
in 1959 which superimposed a pin-up girl
Pin-up girl
A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...
onto a well-known liberation
Liberation
-Publications:* Libération, French newspaper* Libération , a Moroccan newspaper* Liberation , monthly pacifist magazine founded, published, and edited by A.J...
photograph, which featured a flatbed of stacked with corpses, juxtaposing the American consumer culture with the Holocaust. The collage which is considered to be an elaboration of Lurie's earlier work, Flatcar Assemblage by Adolf Hitler, is considered to be Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie
Boris Lurie was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for art leading to social action...
most notorious and controversial work.