{"id":10108,"date":"2018-01-13T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10108"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:46:58","slug":"top-collage-artists-i-never-even-knew-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10108","title":{"rendered":"Top collage artists I never even knew about !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have always tried to exploit the photograph. I use it like color, or as the poet uses the word.\u201d
\n\u2014 Hannah H\u00f6ch
\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is always a temptation for a so-called blogger to dangle a \u201cbest of\u201d or \u201ctop twenty\u201d list to entice a visitor, and, of course, we see this tactic used almost on a daily basis in various fields of art and entertainment. How many of us have gone online and swallowed just such a colorful lure? On the most obvious level, the whole stimulus-response thing is a bit silly, but the potential to learn something new does exist, or to sharpen our own sense of quality, preference, and discernment. Each of us is free to have viewpoints, as long as we recognize them as personal opinions, and avoid casting them about as certitude. Isn\u2019t there enough of that going on these days? (Yes, dear guest, that is merely my perspective.) \"Cut<\/a><\/p>\n

What does this have to do with collage? Well, I just paid a visit to a page at AnotherMag.com<\/a> (in response to the aforesaid bait), and I learned for the first time about three collage artists who were new to me, a working artist who purports to ruminate on \u201call things collage.\u201d In this particular case, there may have been an explicit effort to achieve an overdue gender balance for a post intended to spotlight the H\u00f6ch retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery<\/a> in London, but one could question the absence of Paolozzi, Rauschenberg, Johnson, Hamilton, or Kol\u00e1\u0159. To not include at least one of these men as a key figure in the history of collage brings no meaningful discredit on any of the artists, but only on the list. (And that, too, is just my opinion).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I am not ashamed to accentuate the gaps in my collage literacy and to feature three noteworthy female artists: Eileen Agar, Nancy Spero, and Annegret Soltau. Examples of their work should have appeared here long before now.
\n <\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/a><\/p>\n

Woman reading<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Eileen Agar<\/a>, 1936
\nMuseum of New Zealand<\/p>\n

\"Protagonists<\/a><\/p>\n

Protagonists<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Nancy Spero<\/a>, 1989
\ndisposition unknown<\/p>\n

\"Grima<\/a><\/p>\n

Grima – mit Katze<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Annegret Soltau<\/a>, from her 1986-97 series
\nVero Group Collection, Houston, Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have always tried to exploit the photograph. I use it like color, or as the poet uses the word.\u201d \u2014 Hannah H\u00f6ch   It is always a temptation for a so-called blogger to dangle a \u201cbest of\u201d or \u201ctop twenty\u201d list to entice a visitor, and, of course, we see this tactic used almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,1,168,24,258,33,8,16,14,13,6,128,193,255,5,54,209,63,257,184,32,31,259,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10141,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions\/10141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}