Definition of bricolage in English:
bricolage
nounPlural bricolages ˌbrɪkəˈlɑːʒˌbrikə-
mass noun1(in art or literature) construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
the chaotic bricolage of the novel is brought together in a unifying gesture
Example sentencesExamples
- They're photographic bricolage, re-interpreting neighbourhood texts in radical ways.
- He has described the process of building it as one of bricolage, the French term for do-it-yourself.
- In terms of the folk tradition, it's called bricolage in French, and the Germans have the verb bastler.
- We live in an era of the pragmatic and effective bricolage of objects and all sorts of media.
- Bricolage certainly jars and stirs the imagination, but is bricolage enough for reform?
- Where all of this bizarre bricolage leaves us is anyone's guess.
- Similarly, bricolage requires a disciplined tossing out of rules and reinvention of old forms into new variations.
- With a compositional logic of bricolage, the building looks ‘tinny ‘compared to its neighbouring institutions.’
- It seemed that the nineties brought mimicry and bricolage to new heights in pop music.
- 1.1count noun Something constructed or created from a diverse range of things.
bricolages of painted junk
Example sentencesExamples
- The first clue is the spoken word bricolage that begins the album.
- That confronted with the comparable images and ideas they could not create a comparable bricolage?
- And in this bricolage, women's voices find their way to audiences that might otherwise never hear them.
- Certainly, there won't be any growing up in public if their charming sonic bricolage sneaks into the mainstream.
- Is Heidegger's thought just a bricolage of ideas derived from others?
- Sadly, the impatience of many has led them to attempt a bricolage of history.
- A community recalling its past generates a composite bricolage of folk histories.