collagic

English

Etymology

Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage +‎ -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/

Adjective

collagic (comparative more collagic, superlative most collagic)

1. (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, Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film‎^[1], published 1980, →ISBN, 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^[2], →ISBN, 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, Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions‎^[3], →ISBN, 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, Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance‎^[4], →ISBN, page 106:

     [Two 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^[5], →ISBN, page 43:

     […] postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior […]