collagist
Americannoun
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In the decade since, Mr. McCraven has become something of a star, as a percussionist, producer and sonic collagist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
A 2016 work scored for soprano, two backup singers, “bar band” and chamber orchestra, it sounds as collagist as it presents — a mirror that reflects Thomas’s multitudes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022
His is a collagist method, guided by a principle he calls “Black Dada,” which excerpts and juxtaposes writing, images, music in service of a social understanding, notably of Blackness in America.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Often, at the center of the story, there’s a Gibson-like figure—an orphaned collagist of actual or digital bits.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
In the United States, individual figures such as painter and collagist Romare Bearden, photographer Roy DeCarava, assemblage artists David Hammons, Noah Purifoy and Betye Saar, sculptor Martin Puryear and several others are well established.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2019
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