Cut & Paste

Before Henry Darger.....

Before John Heartfield.....

Before "Une semaine de bonté " by Max Ernst.....

There were Victorian Ladies with pots of glue.....

In her Slate article, The Dark Art of Cut and Paste, Sarah Boxer explores the lurid history of the photo collage. We recommend the read:

A year or so after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), English ladies started cutting up photos of their friends and relations and pasting bits and pieces of them (particularly their heads) into alien landscapes and onto foreign bodies. Was it just a new pastime, like staging parties or playing the piano–yet another way for Victorian women to show off their class and their wits? Or was it more? Read more...