For real infor­ma­tion about a Cubist Col­lage, click here for a more rel­e­vant post.

An attor­ney in Brook­lyn, NY recently sent a link to a very inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion con­cern­ing col­lages. Since lay­w­ers have to go to col­lage for a long time, I fig­ured he knew what he was talk­ing about. I went to col­lage in North Car­olina, South Car­olina, Arkansas, and even Hol­land (that’s The Nether­lands for your purists). Col­lages… my favorite way to learn:

“Col­lage has thus been deployed both as a mode of polit­i­cal resis­tance and as a protest against the com­mod­ity form, as an instru­ment of total­i­tar­ian pro­pa­ganda and as a cap­i­tal­ist adver­tis­ing tac­tic. It was this oscil­la­tion — a sweep­ing applic­a­bil­ity to both the pop­u­lar and the polit­i­cal, con­sump­tion and nega­tion — that would usher in the late-​twentieth-​century turn to col­lage as a com­mon and essen­tial form of rethink­ing, repo­si­tion­ing, and rework­ing media.”

That’s from Art­Fo­rum, a very remark­able read for any­one artis­ti­cally inclined.

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