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Silent City of Collage

by Eric Edelman on May 15, 2012

On a dusty warehouse shelf sits a souvenir of a pre-digital age: a child’s diorama in a cardboard box with a glass front.

Behind the glass, and in front of a curved, night-blue paper sky in which a tinfoil moon rises, someone has placed buildings cut from an old postcard; caught in the act of soaring among the buildings, papier-mâché birds with dyed feathers hang motionless on invisible threads.

A night city of silence. All is motionless, except when footsteps outside set the birds trembling.

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Collage’s Theater of the Senses

by Eric Edelman on May 8, 2012

Five windows light the cavern’d Man; thro’ one he breathes the air;
Thro’ one, hears music of the spheres; thro’ one, the eternal vine
Flourishes, that he may recieve the grapes; thro’ one can look.
And see small portions of the eternal world that ever groweth;
Thro’ one, himself pass out what time he please, but he will not;
For stolen joys are sweet, & bread eaten in secret pleasant.

–from Europe: A Prophecy (1794) by William Blake (1757-1827), visionary artist and poet

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The Invisible Collage

May 1, 2012

Remember to say a prayer for the invisible ones. The unacknowledged. The transparent. The ones who hide in plain sight. The ones who wait to be noticed. All those who beg the favor of existence, which is conferred by a glance. All those who are grateful for the mere act of searching, the glance that [...]

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Collage’s Forefathers

April 24, 2012

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Armchair Travels in Collage

April 17, 2012

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot

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The Mental Traveller of Collage

April 10, 2012

William Blake (1757-1827), the English mystical artist and poet, compiled a handwritten collection of ten poems, which would eventually be published in 1866, nearly forty years after his death. The poems are thought to have been written sometime in the first decade of the nineteenth century. The collection became known as the Pickering Manuscript, after [...]

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Art of RetroCollage Thanks You for Your Support!

April 3, 2012

To all friends of Art of RetroCollage: During the past year-and-a-half of writing the Art of RetroCollage blog, I’ve been surprised, touched, and gratified by your support for the art and writing that appear here, and I thank you for the hundreds of thoughtful comments that you have generously posted on the site. It’s [...]

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Juan Gris: Profile in Collage

March 23, 2012

Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Juan Gris, Cubist co-originator of collage and found-object art.

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His Doll’s Voice: a Collage Sequel to “Bébé Marie Presents”

March 20, 2012

Imagine if a Victorian talking doll still existed, in working condition, able to play again the speech of a woman long gone. It might be the only evidence that this woman once lived–a weak and scratchy recording giving voice to the tedious factory routine of her days one hundred and thirty years ago. A spoken memorial to her soul.

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Bébé Marie Presents …

March 13, 2012

Sometime in the early twentieth century, the American artist Joseph Cornell paid a visit to his cousin Ethel. An only child, Ethel lived alone in a “Hudson River-type” house, as Cornell’s sister Betty described it. During his visit and while rummaging around in the basement or attic of Ethel’s house, Cornell found a large Victorian [...]

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