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“The collage technique, that art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, is the most important innovation in the art of this century. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, or recognized.”

Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2006), 19.
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