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RetroCollage - Musings on creativity, aesthetics, and collage in general and surrealist collage in particular, liberally seasoned ..

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RetroCollage - Musings on creativity, aesthetics, and collage in general and surrealist collage in particular, liberally seasoned with wit and the philosophy of art. the RetroCollage blog presents interesting facts and theories about the relationships among collage and vision, ancestral memory, and the cultural collective unconscious. The site also promotes the appreciation and use of wood engravings as source material for collage, honoring the work of collage masters past and present: Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Sätty, Jim Harter, and others.
Added: September 27, 2010
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Elective Affinities in Collage

Published on 2011-10-26 12:17:55

  Elective affinities: Formerly, this referred to a theory describing preferential combination and reaction among different chemical elements; also the title of Goethe’s third novel, published in 1809, examining whether the “chemistry” between lovers tended to subvert the institution of marriage. (All artwork & descriptions created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.) [...]

Collage Inquisition

Published on 2011-10-19 11:28:02

  Through long habit he has become used to the interminable sessions: questions, analyses, probes, dissections.  He no longer feels what has been taken from him bit by bit. But he sees how the siege has affected his questioners – those colorless Inquisitors – who have given up, voluntarily, just as much as he has [...]

Collages at an Exhibition

Published on 2011-10-11 22:47:29

  Here, with a tip of the hat to 19th century Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition,  is a cyber-exhibition of some collages done in 1996 and 1997. Please take some time to stroll through the salon and look over the pictures ….  feel free to sign our “guest book” (leave a comment) [...]



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