Definitions

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  • adjective art Resembling a collage; presenting a jumble of different types of content

Etymologies

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collage +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The collagelike stories in "Stay Awake," his fifth book, are both literary and lurid, and Mr. Chaon seems to enjoy playing at the edge of horror: in an interview with Publishers Weekly, he cited "contemporary headline horror" as an inspiration.

    The Short List: Steven Van Zandt Goes to Norway in 'Lilyhammer' 2012

  • Three of Graham's own paintings, from around 1930, attest to his preference for flat, biomorphic forms in overlapping, collagelike arrangements.

    NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2012

  • Jess Collins 1923-2004 dropped out of a career as an atomic scientist; went to art school in San Francisco, where he became an integral part of the Beat avant-garde; and spent the rest of his life making intricate collages and collagelike paintings incorporating scientific and occult symbols.

    NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

  • Brian Doyle's Current is a study of paper scraps floating through the air in lower Manhattan, Harlan Wallach's Devon (1999) presents a collagelike impression of the colorful Chicago street, and Moira Tierney's Ride City (2000) does the same for a Dublin horse market.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Brian Doyle's Current is a study of paper scraps floating through the air in lower Manhattan, Harlan Wallach's Devon (1999) presents a collagelike impression of the colorful Chicago street, and Moira Tierney's Ride City (2000) does the same for a Dublin horse market.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • One of Denver's best painters unveils a new body of semi-abstracted, collagelike compositions inspired by photographs from fashion and design magazines.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Brian Doyle's Current is a study of paper scraps floating through the air in lower Manhattan, Harlan Wallach's Devon (1999) presents a collagelike impression of the colorful Chicago street, and Moira Tierney's Ride City (2000) does the same for a Dublin horse market.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Brian Doyle's Current is a study of paper scraps floating through the air in lower Manhattan, Harlan Wallach's Devon (1999) presents a collagelike impression of the colorful Chicago street, and Moira Tierney's Ride City (2000) does the same for a Dublin horse market.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Fragments of melody and rhythmic licks are fashioned into a collagelike orchestral fabric.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • And perhaps most fundamentally, the modern masters centered their own work around the elements that are salient for the young child: Picasso, around the rough scribbles and collagelike juxtaposition of the toddler; Stravinsky, around primordial rhythms and repetitive tonal clusters reminiscent of singing in the nursery; Eliot, around the remembered images and flavor of youthful experience; and Graham, around the stripped-down versions of movement and the basic dualities of contraction and relaxation that permeate early physical experience.

    The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2003

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