"Have you ever looked at a collage by an artist like Picasso or Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters or Joe Brainard, and felt a powerful urge to immediately go make a collage yourself? Perhaps there’s something about the tactile, playful, anyone-can-do-it premise of collage (unlike, say, oil painting) that invites us to try it ourselves. Fortunately now you can, thanks to a delightful new interactive website called 'Make Your Own Brainard,' created by the scholar Rona Cran (an expert on, among other things, collage in twentieth-century literature and art). Not only does the site enable you to design your own collage, but rather miraculously, you can create one using actual materials that Brainard himself selected, cut out, but never used. ..."
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
Joe Brainard and the New York School: Material Texts and Digital Cultures
2008 February: Joe Brainard, 2010 November: I Remember, 2011 October: A State of the Flowers Report, 2011 November: Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, 2012 March: Bolinas Journal, 2012 September: I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard by Matt Wolf (2012), 2014 November: Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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