collagist
Americannoun
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The book’s collagist arrangement of autobiography and artist sketches testifies to the Modernist influences that Americans were adapting for their own material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 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
And as a collagist, she cuts and pastes discarded bits of imagery into unexpectedly resonant constellations of possibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
She came to painting only recently, having spent the majority of her three-decade career as a conceptual photographer and collagist.
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2019
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