Cubomania is a Surrealist technique of making collages by cutting an image into squares and reassembling without regard for the original image at random[1][2] to create something new.[3]

The technique was invented by the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca.[4][5] Luca introduced cubomania at two exhibitions in Bucharest, in 1945 and 1946, and in small publications.[6] Luca positioned cubomania as a mix of Karl Marx's and André Breton's ideas. It was a critique of the alleged objectivity of social conditions and rejected the tyranny over liberty.[6]

It has been described as a "statistical method".[7]

Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski have suggested that cubomania can "subvert the enslaving 'message' of advertising and to free images from repressive contexts."[8]

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References

  1. ^ Hirsch, Robert (2007). Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Focal Press. pp. 209. ISBN 978-0-240-80855-0.
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  3. ^ Rosemont, Franklin (2003). Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture. Charles H. Kerr. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-88286-264-4.
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  5. ^ "U B U W E B :: Gherasim Luca". Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  6. ^ a b Fijalkowski, Krzysztof. "Cubomania: Gherasim Luca and Non-Oedipal Collage". Dada/Surrealism (20). Archived from the original on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Surrealist games - SourceryForge". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  8. ^ Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press. 2000. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-941194-43-3.
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