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28th July 2025

This week's subject is collage, and specifically collage art created by women. The category is usually dominated by names such as Picasso, Braque, Gris, Dali, Duchamp, and Piper, but female artists have been putting together often surreal and juxtapositions of images since collage and découpage became polite parlour pastimes in the C19. As this article says, for Victorian women photocollage could be a means to subvert social norms and even flirt, which is what Lady Filmer (1840-1903) is doing here with the Prince of Wales in Lady Filmer in her drawing room (1860s, Chicago).

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