Venice Fantasies Book Discount

Since the very start of his career, Peter Blake has produced quirky, humorous (and now instantly recognisable) collages, which embrace the absurd.

In his Venice Fantasies Series the artist takes 21 different photographs of Venice captured in the early 1900’s as part of a set of tourist postcards, and transforms them with a cast of unlikely characters and animals. His highly-detailed homage to Venice is inspired by the Surrealist collages of Max Ernst, and imagines Venice’s streets and waterways being overtaken by the likes of Minnie and Mickey Mouse, scout troops, and quintessential American tourists.