Collagelike

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. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Three of Graham's own paintings, from around 1930, attest to his preference for flat, biomorphic forms in overlapping, collagelike arrangements. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of Denver's best painters unveils a new body of semi-abstracted, collagelike compositions inspired by photographs from fashion and design magazines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fragments of melody and rhythmic licks are fashioned into a collagelike orchestral fabric. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ M-mv (2003)

The foundation of his style was the kind of 12-tone music — gray, grim, forbidding — that dominated the 1960s, but it’s the collagelike way in which other kinds of music — jazz, Gregorian chant, folk songs, Bach chorales — are mixed in that gives the piece a manic, back-and-forth bounce that suits the obsessive zeal with which Zimmermann attacked his subject. ❋ Unknown (2008)