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bri·co·lage  (brk-läzh, brk-)
n.
Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available: "Even the decor is a bricolage, a mix of this and that" (Los Angeles Times).
[French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin.]
bricolage [ˈbrɪkəˌlɑːʒ (French) brɪkɔlaʒ]
n Architect
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the deliberate creation of such an effect in certain modern developments the post-modernist bricolage of the new shopping centre
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5) People's courts are complex and creative bricolages that appropriate critical signs from various sites, contest the dominant order, and become spaces within which people imagine, communicate and enforce ideas and visions of society and morality.
Of men, magic, and the law: popular justice and the political ... by Crais, Clifton / Journal of Social History
His early- to mid-'90s bricolages of chopped and tailored Tupperware containers, pencils, and other dime-store miscellany seemed to succeed mostly when they failed to deliver on their attempts to stand in for information-storage systems, instead simply offering curious three dimensional compositions.
Chris Finley: ACME. (Los Angeles) by Miles, Christopher / Artforum International
10) Toni Morrison's exploration of the Africanist discourse in the "white" American novel is a testimony to hybridity; Anna Deavere Smith's disquieting bricolages of the fear, force, and powerlessness that constitute Crown Heights or the L.
Black and white and read all over by Bhabha, Homi Jehangir / Artforum International
 
 
 
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