{"id":8524,"date":"2017-03-05T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:37:56","slug":"a-medium-in-need-of-an-internal-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/8524","title":{"rendered":"a medium in need of an internal critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you\u2019re coasting, you\u2019re going downhill.\u201d
\n\u2014 L W Pierson
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Awhile ago, someone asked a question<\/a> about the trajectory of collage: \u201cWhat\u2019s Next?\u201d To ponder that, I remind myself that one thoughtful critique is worth more<\/a> than a ton of casual \u201clikes.\u201d Those of us who love this practice need to push beyond the comfort of mutual praise and communicate honestly about the medium of collage (not about our political attitudes). Don\u2019t expect the lords of social media to provide a thumbs-down button. That\u2019s not the solution (even if they do). There needs to be the virtual equivalent of the intense coffee houses and night spots of a century ago, where artists were not shy about challenging the easy answers and safe solutions.<\/p>\n

<\/a> H\u00f6ch<\/a>, Hausmann<\/a>, Schwitters<\/a>, and their fellow collage \u201cinventors\u201d included found material contemporary with their times. There are many current practitioners who restrict themselves to \u201cvintage\u201d resources, and some of them avoid using anything younger than 50 years old. Whatever they choose to do is fine, but, in my opinion, 21st-century collage artists are challenged to explore the cast-off stuff of today for potential ingredients in a fresh \u201cschool of post-centennial collage\u201d that \u201cdocuments\u201d our own culture, rather than confine themselves to curating the artifacts of our ancestors. Remember, when KS pasted down a tram ticket in place of a brushstroke, nearly a hundred years ago, he was clearly using something that he just acquired on the street. Let\u2019s think about that when as ask ourselves, “What\u2019s Next?”
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\n\"Tinged<\/a><\/p>\n

Tinged By Whispered Accounts<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage experiment in monochrome by J A Dixon
\n7.75 x 10.25 inches
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\nPurchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you\u2019re coasting, you\u2019re going downhill.\u201d \u2014 L W Pierson   Awhile ago, someone asked a question about the trajectory of collage: \u201cWhat\u2019s Next?\u201d To ponder that, I remind myself that one thoughtful critique is worth more H\u00f6ch, Hausmann, Schwitters, and their fellow collage \u201cinventors\u201d included found material contemporary with their times. There are many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,168,24,52,14,22,18,5,63,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524"}],"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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}