The Mon­tage Art of Win­ston Smith — Vol­ume 1

“It is impos­si­ble to pin down who’s the ‘best’ col­lage artist in the uni­verse, but Win­ston Smith would cer­tainly leap to mind (and then blow that mind repeat­edly). Most of his images are like a punch in the face. There must be ten zil­lion peo­ple doing col­lages for every­thing from Exxon ads to fanzines to street posters, so the com­pe­ti­tion is stiff; but Smith’s work has stood out, glar­ingly, for the last 15 years as the most con­sis­tently star­tling, mean­ing­ful and tech­ni­cally accom­plished in this bas­tard field. It’s high time Smith became a rich, famous artist rather than the best-kept secret of the under­ground.” — unknown

By its very nature, the medium of col­lage demands the appro­pri­a­tion of many and span­erse images. These images are the works of won­der­ful artists who pro­duced work from the 1880s through the 1950s. Many were well-known in their field. Many worked in near anonymity. All of them con­tributed to the vast visual galaxy of cul­tural icons that have enhanced and defined our civ­i­liza­tion. Acknowl­edg­ing their clas­sic work is an honor, since with­out their efforts this vol­ume could not exist.

Act Like Nothing’s Wrong includes 95 pages of  the col­lages includ­ing one enti­tled His Most Holy and Ortho­dox Rev­erend Ivan Stang, High Pope of the Church of the Sub­Ge­nius. With for­ward by Dirk Dirk­sen and intro­duc­tion by Suzanne Ste­fanac.

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