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bricolage, n. Brit. |ˌbrɪˈkɒlɑːʒ|, |ˌbrɪkɒˈlɑːʒ|, |ˌbrɪkəˈlɑːʒ|, U.S. |ˌbrɪkəˈlɑʒ| [‹ French bricolage do-it-yourself (1927; in spec. use in literary criticism C. Lévi-Strauss La Pensée Sauvage (1962) i. 26) > n. + -age -age suffix.] Construction or (esp. literary or artistic) creation from a diverse range of materials or sources. Hence: an object or concept so created; a miscellaneous collection, often (in Art) of found objects.
1960R. G. Cohn Writer's Way in France 101 Adolescence is the period par excellence of bricolage—fiddling and tinkering with [literary] devices. 1968Man 3 92 The fact that recurrent patterns emerge is worthy of note, though we should perhaps recognise the possibility that the bricolage lies with the ethnographer rather than in the ethnography. 1971Times 21 Dec. 8/6 His photographs divide along definite lines of contrast. The most obvious is..a contrast between the bricolage of popular life and small trading, and the formal plan of the aristocratic parks. 1991Art in Amer. Apr. 181/1 Unusually for a British painter, he periodically makes sculptures or objects, bricolages of painted junk in which his homunculi wander as though through ominous urban settings. 2002NFT Programme Booklet (National Film Theatre) June 14/2 Punk's principal aesthetics were montage and bricolage: the attempt to break down the relics of a period of over-consumption and to render the pace of an accelerated age. |