collage and montage

In May of next year, I have arranged a roundtable of artists and scholars to discuss technology and collage/montage. In this NY Times slideshow, the work of 16th century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo will amuse many, and it has a corresponding relevance to the Dada photomontage from the early twentieth century in which the human form again appeared in collage assmblies, grotesque, and newly politicized. In the excellent notes and the accompanying review, the New York Times writer Michael Kimmerman does a good job of tying Arcimboldo's paintings to the state of the art in technology and politics of the day.

Here's the link to the pics.