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▪ I. collage|kɒˈlɑːʒ|
[Fr., lit. ‘pasting, gluing’.]
An abstract form of art in which photographs, pieces of paper, newspaper cuttings, string, etc., are placed in juxtaposition and glued to the pictorial surface; such a work of art. Also transf., fig., and attrib.
1919W. Lewis Caliph's Design i. 26 He..gradually drifts into the habit (a sort of progressive collage) of bringing his lack of painter's prowess and his nice feeling for art together. 1935D. Gascoyne Short Surv. Surrealism iv. 66 Poems can be composed from random newspaper-cuttings (‘collage’ poems). Ibid. 73 Max Ernst, with..his astonishing books of ‘collage’ pictures. Ibid. vi. 133 Parallel with these features..may be placed collage and frottage. 1936J. Deschin New Ways Photogr. 181 Before embarking on the making of a photomontage, it should be understood that the term refers to a photographic process entirely and not to the scissors-and-paste method (known as collage) practiced by some in the name of photomontage. 1936H. Read Surrealism 62 The invention of the collage by Picasso or Braque—the work of art made of any old pieces of string or newspaper. 1937Auden & MacNeice Lett. Iceland 21 Press cuttings, gossip, maps, statistics, graphs; I don't intend to do the thing by halves... It is a collage that you're going to read. 1938MacNeice Mod. Poetry viii. 144 The early Eliot's diction..is often a collage of other people's writing. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXV. 301 The accompanying ‘collages’ demonstrate a new use for the Object, particularly the Found Object (l'objet trouvé of surrealist invention). 1956R. Ironside in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 285 The technique of ‘collage’ would be improperly described as a photographic process. 1957Observer 15 Sept. 13/7 His assured collage paintings. Ibid., Robyn Denny..has discovered new possibilities in collage. 1961Times 4 Aug. 3/4 When calling to mind a picture which is a collage-painting the fact that it is a collage is almost the first thing that we recollect. 1969Sat. Rev. 28 June 56/3 Berio's Sinfonia provided an excellent example of the ‘collage’ which some composers like to practice nowadays.
Hence coˈllagist, one who makes collages.
1953in Berg Dict. New Words (ed. 2). 1958Listener 20 Nov. 842/1 At the I.C.A. there is an exhibition of three collagists.
▪ II. collage
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