It was a great city, but it really got hit hard in recent times. I lived there for a time when I was a young 5th grader. The Detroit Institute of Arts owns you, but your future life there is threatened due to financial issues. Sorry we had to meet under such horrid circumstances. I have never heard of Betye Saar but I am glad I did. I am thinking over this blog and wondering exactly where does it fall within these 2 categories…. I am in the process of removing myself from things that seem to waste my time and keep me from living and trying to lean back on things that I felt were life-building. It's all so exciting and fresh and it takes every bit of the energy that I have and it leaves me so little time to tell the story about it. I am working through some new ideas, such as collage in 3d. I take these sporadic breaks from my collage practice often, but hardly do they last this long. I do feel it's important to take time out and live. With new zeal I tried my hand at acrylic painting. The effort required to DO became more than I had bargained for and I had no time to WRITE about it. I wanted to post pictures about all the wonderful work I have seen and explain how I am teaching this idea. I started teaching altered books in my collage Design class at SUNY Cobleskill. I started to explore other mediums and it felt silly to report about that here on a collage clearinghouse! She drew together fashion magazines, illustrated journals and photography to pioneer a form bent on demonstrating that art itself could be collected from the everyday clutter of modern life.I have gone through so many personal things over the past couple of years, it became difficult to keep up with this blog. Throughout her career, Höch would challenge the marginalised place of women in twentieth century Germany. A collage of newspaper clippings, the work challenges the racist and sexist codes upholding Weimar Germany. Höch’s most famous work, effortlessly titled ‘Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany’, shows her ideals and techniques in synthesis.

From the originators and pioneers of the form to more contemporary practitioners, AnOther presents its top 10 collage artists. Via the assemblage of different objects and images, collage interrogates the fundamental concept of what it is to create art, whilst offering a prismatic reflection of the social change and upheaval of the twentieth century. Emerging as a reaction to the First World War, collage allowed artists to interact with existing materials – anything from newsprint and magazines to maps, tickets and propaganda and photographs – to rip them apart and then reassemble them, creating visually dynamic hybrids.Ĭoined by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the term ‘collage’ points towards a medium simultaneously serious and tongue-in-cheek a technique that is deeply referential of the political world in which the works were produced. From its roots in European Dadaism in the early years of the twentieth century, shadowing modernism and tracing its way through photography, collage is a medium as diverse as it is politically charged.

Female selfie collage