collagic
adj/kəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/
Etymology Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage + -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.
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Rare Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
- Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore […] .1971, Filmmakers Newsletter (Suncraft International), volume 5, number 1–6, page 24
- His film Invocation of my Demon Brother[…] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual[…] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.1977, Barry Walter Moore, Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film, published 1980, →ISBN, page 94:
4 more examples
- Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb, →ISBN, page 18:
- A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers[…] have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it.1988, Lyell Asher, Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions, →ISBN, page 85:
- [Two CD-ROMs] are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery.1998, Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance, →ISBN, page 106:
- […]postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior[…]2005, Guiyou Huang, Asian American Literary Studies, →ISBN, page 43: