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Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis – $450
by rgonzalezr
“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers,” the French philosopher Montaigne famously wrote, “and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” The first decade of the twenty-first century appears to belong to the collagist, for whom the creative act is not creation sui generis, but rather the collecting, cutting and pasting of the already extant. Collage, which began as an art meant to confound the brain with its disparate components, has jumped the flat surface, […]
Categories: Arte, Cultura, Ensayo • Tags: 21st century, Art, collage, Criticism, Culture, cut and paste, JRP Ringier, Mixed media, music, XXI