Copious Free Time

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I go looking for these online. Yesterday I found this at The Vangobot Project. Or maybe Project Vangobot. Anyway, it's at a legible size, ripe for enjoyment:



I've added it to my Tricky Cad photoset at flickr, which I've tried to make into the most complete collection I could find of these astonishing collages. He did some number of them and then went on to other collages and artworks. If he'd kept industriously doing the same thing, and lived a while longer, he'd be a bigger Pop Art icon than the clumsy swiper Lichtenstein. Click the image to get to a size big enough to read (and big enough to cause problems for some LJ readers, alas).
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Many of you know I'm a big fan of the late Jess Collins (aka Jess), whose meticulous cut-and-paste jobs on Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" comic strip resulted in some seriously crazed images. Jess was a pop-art pioneer who doesn't get enough credit. There should be a book of his Tricky Cad masterpieces (a gallery owner told me that the fragile newsprint originals won't last forever, and at least one is no longer viewable!). Until there is, there's my flickr page, where I've collected every example I could find of these masterpieces.



And here we have a sort-of new one. I have a shot of one of the notebooks (this one resides in the Odyssia Gallery in NYC, and I hope one day I'll get to see it directly), and the second page is at an angle and not easy to see. Well, now it's easier to see.
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