Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
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Eunice Parsons, Who Elevated Collage to New Heights, Dies at 108
The artist influenced generations of Pacific Northwestern artists as an artist and teacher.
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The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages
One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.
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Eileen Agar’s Surrealist Sea
“Surrealism for me draws its inspiration from nature,” writes Eileen Agar in her memoir A Look at My Life.
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There’s Something Toxic About Megan Bickel’s Landscapes
Knowledge, visual perception, and the disruption of both by new technologies are at the heart of artist’s multimedia paintings.
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The Miscarriage Collages That Were Too Much for the Art World
In 1974, the San Francisco Art Institute isolated Joanne Leonard’s series Journal of a Miscarriage from the rest of the works in her solo show. Has anything changed since?
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Stan VanDerBeek’s Virtual Windows on the World
A cacophony of life, death, and perfume ads, transmitted across the same frequency, VanDerBeek’s fax collages captures an “international picture language.”
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Once Upon a Time in Albuquerque
Karsten Creightney’s familiar yet uncanny landscapes transport, disrupt, and open possibilities for new worlds.
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Justine Kurland Cuts the Male Canon to Pieces
In SCUMB Manifesto, Kurland slices up her collection of photo books by men to create collages that subvert the male gaze.
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Collages Inspired by Langston Hughes Poems Acquired by Morgan Library
The donation of Ashley Bryan’s work marks the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator.
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Surrealism’s Unfinished Business
The art of the collagiste is essentially the art of the scavenger, the opportunistic thief.
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Collage and Poetry as Social Document
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s work illuminates connections between poetic expression and public accountability.