List of Figures

I.1 Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912. Oil, oilcloth, and pasted paper. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2013.

I.2 John Haberle. A Bachelor’s Drawer, 1890–1894. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry R. Luce Gift, 1970. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1.1 Lee Miller. Joseph Cornell, New York Studio, 1933. Black and white photograph. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2013. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk.

1.2 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Woman and Sewing Machine), 1931. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.3 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Schooner), 1931. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.4 Joseph Cornell. Exhibition poster for Surréalisme, Julien Levy Gallery, 1932. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.5 Joseph Cornell. Diary entry written on a blank Western Union telegram form, January 5, 1949 / Joseph Cornell, author. © Joseph Cornell Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

1.6 Max Ernst. Untitled plate from Une semaine de bonté, 1934. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013.

1.7 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Woman with Lions), c. 1930s. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.8 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Man with Portable Motion Picture Camera and Musical Score), 1932–1938. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.9 Max Ernst. ‘Le geste élégant du noyé’, plate from Une semaine de bonté, 1934. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013.

1.10 Max Ernst. ‘Ici se préparent les premières touches de la grâce et les jeux sans issue’, plate from La femme 100 têtes, 1929. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013.

1.11 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Children with Carnival Carts and Suitcases), 1934. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

1.12 Max Ernst. ‘Suite’, plate from La femme 100 têtes, 1929. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013.

1.13 Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Seated Figure with Suspended Plates and Bottles), 1932–1938. Collage. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2013.

2.1 Photograph of archival cut-up material by William S. Burroughs held at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Draft cut-up from the Burroughs Papers, Series II (experimental prose), Box 1, Fols 11–16. Copyright © The Estate of William S. Burroughs, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

2.2 Photograph of archival cut-up material by William S. Burroughs held at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Selection of cut-up fragments from the Allen Ginsberg Papers, Series II, Box 16, Fols 7–8. Copyright © The Estate of William S. Burroughs, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

3.1 Mario Schifano. Frank O’Hara, 1965. © DACS 2013.

4.1 A postage stamp printed in the Republic of Djibouti showing Bob Dylan, c. 2011.

C.1 John Ashbery. The Mail in Norway, 2009. Collage, digitized print, 16 ¼ × 16 ¼ inches. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy, New York.