SLSL Intro "Junkshop or Randomly Assembled Quality"

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 30 22:23:01 CST 2002


--- thomas kyhn rovsing hjørnet <tkrh at worldonline.dk> wrote:
> On 29/11/02 22:14, "David Morris" <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ³Collage, bricollage, cubism (in some of its earliest forms), and jazz and
all "improvisational" art forms:  one combines "found" objects to construct new
wholes.²
> > 
> That goes for everything, writing included. But: what's particularly
improvisational about it?

Collage is improvisational in that one does not start with a plan, but lets the
parts suggest a composition.  The plan for the whole does not exist before the
parts are assembled.  At least that was my meaning here.  Jazz is
improvisational because...

David Morris

David Morris
 
> Thomas
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