Cut and Paste: The Collage Impulse Today, by Charlie White
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Published in Artforum April 2009, pp. 210 – 215.
Summary: A historical reconsideration of collage’s transition from the political to the personal after 1969, starting with Raul Huasmann, and ending with Polyvore.com, the essay maps the transition of collage from an experimental art form to a common visual language. Citing popular media formats such as Sesame Street, Electric Company, and MTV, as well as the advent of the digital as primary causes for the shift in the medium. The essay argues that collage has transitioned from the political to the personal, functioning as a popular language of adolescent desire and consumption in late capitalism.
