Collagic
Pronunciation
Origin
Unknown a 20th century neologism, regular derivation from collage + -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations. (Google Books reports a possible 1967 occurrence inside the booklet of a videocassette release of Chafed Elbows, but the copyrighted page is restricted online.)
Full definition of collagic
Adjective
collagic
- (rare) Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
- 1971, Filmmakers Newsletter (Suncraft International), volume 5, number 1–6, page 24:Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore....
- 1977, Barry Walter Moore and Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film, 1980 edition, ISBN 0405129130, page 94:His film Invocation of my Demon Brother... has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual... interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.
- 1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb, ISBN 9027205019, page 18:Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.
- 1988, Lyell Asher and Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions, ISBN 0944624006, page 85:A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers... have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it.
- 1998, Nina Rapi and Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance, ISBN 0789003708, page 106:CD-ROMs are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery.
- 2005, Guiyou Huang, Asian American Literary Studies, ISBN 0748620133, page 43:...postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior...