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Max Ernst collages are the type of this kind, made from many common sources—cheap advertisements in the back of the newspaper or department-store catalogue—scissored together into a new appearance of meaning.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Her book recalls the photomontages of Hannah Höch, in which objects, text, and images from the German media are scissored up and juxtaposed, producing unexpected scenarios that feel all the more truthful for their strangeness.
—Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Her book recalls the photomontages of Hannah Höch, in which objects, text, and images from the German media are scissored up and juxtaposed, producing unexpected scenarios that feel all the more truthful for their strangeness.
—Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
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