NEW
YORK, NY.- In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of
collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century,
aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage.
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to
comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon. Whimsical and
fantastical Victorian photocollages, created using a combination of watercolor
drawings and cut-and-pasted photographs, reveal the educated minds as well as
accomplished hands of their makers.