Montage

DEFINITION

A picture composed of other existing illustrations, pictures, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc., that are arranged so they combine to create a new or original image. A collage.<br><br>A single pictorial composition made by juxtaposing or overlapping many pictures or designs. The art or process of making such a composition. Also, a rapid succession of different images or shots in a movie.(pr. mahn-TAHZH)Examples:American, Montage of portraits of Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Lindbergh was widely regarded as a hero for having been the first to fly solo across the Atlantic from the US to France in 1927.American, Montage of New York images following the attacks of September 11, 2001, 2002, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. This is a montage digitally produced from documentary photographs.Also see bricolage, collage, coulage, d?coupage, femmage, frottage, fumage, parsemage, pasteup, and photomontage.