John Stezaker starts with found paper ephemera—black-and-white studio glossies, vintage postcards, mothballed encyclopedias—then slices it up and rejiggers it. A tiny horizontal strip is X-Actoed from ...

The procedure seems simple: the scalpel cuts a part out of one image and inserts it into another in such a way that it fits perfectly into the composition. The Approach presents Spell, a solo ...

For more than 30 years, artist John Stezaker has used found images as his primary medium. In his compositions, black-and-white studio portraits become surreal two-faced beings; elsewhere, a woman’s ...

“At the Edge of Pictures: John Stezaker, Works 1975–1990” at Luxembourg + Co., London, England; installation view (photo by Damien Griffith, all images courtesy Luxembourg + Co., London) LONDON — John ...

The English artist John Stezaker, whose uncanny collages are the subject of a career-spanning exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, tells a revelatory tale about the origins of his luminous art.

John Stezaker is a London-based conceptual artist who draws inspiration from Synthetic Cubism and Dadaist collage. His witty and surreal images are crafted out of found objects, such as publicity ...

From Heidegger’s broken hammer to Stezaker’s broken scissors, we can draw a throughline of thought regarding ‘the image.’ Stezaker has arrived at the idea that a useless object is more ‘material’ ...

He splices together old images and electrifies them into disturbing new life. The artist invites us to his studio to discuss drag shows, depression and David Hockney If you want to see the very best ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. British artist John Stezaker has collected things since he was 10 years old. It started with stamps ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Stezaker likes to watch. To the British conceptual artist, voyeurism is not a crime but a technique, maybe ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...