Allan Randolph Kausch
Thank you for taking an interest in my work. I am a surreal collagist and an experimental novelist; both are produced using the same handmade cut-paper technique. I made my first collages in 1980 by cutting up old magazines and a 1930s “how-to-type” textbook. I substituted new heads, and reversed the text headings, thereby making the message the opposite of the original intent, a technique the Situationists called détournement.
Forty years later, I still spend my time creating!
I’m an idealist and my inspirations are the anti-aesthetic of post-WWI Dada, the spirit of authentic Surrealism (an overused and misused term today), and the antagonism of 1977 punk. It’s important to me to challenge the twenty-first century status quo. I never settle for anything that’s just shocking, ugly, mundane or decorative.
I have been happily married for many years to Tina Mills, who is also an artist. She designed this website and is managing the business aspects of Ark Surreal. When you email www.arksurreal.com we will both see your message, and one of us will get back to you right away.
We feel very lucky to live in beautiful Northern California.
Contact
ark@arksurreal.com
Biography
Allan Kausch was born in Chicago, IL. After receiving a degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, he worked extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area book publishing industry, including eleven years at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch. He won the THX Division’s “Employee of the Year” award, and as the Star Wars Continuity Editor/Associate Editor in the Publishing division of Lucasfilm Licensing, he won the comic book industry’s two major editing awards: the “Harvey” and the “Eisner.”
Allan’s notable freelance book editing includes: the pre-production editing of five volumes of The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, co-editing (with Michael Moorcock) London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction, proofreading Mark Polizzotti’s Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, as well as project editing and proofreading hundreds of other publications for dozens of west and east coast publishers.
