BRICOLAGE
French bricolage do-it-yourself (1927; in spec. use in literary criticism C. Lévi-Strauss La Pensée Sauvage (1962) i. 26)
< bricoler to do small chores (a1859), to fix something ingeniously (1919; 1480 in Middle French in sense ‘to go to and fro’)
< bricole bricole n. + -age -age suffix
(oed)
- practical arts and the fine arts
- construction / creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process
- the means at hand
- assemblage, collage, montage
- merz, schwitters, le corbusier, mies van der rohe
- lévi-strauss: the characteristic patterns of mythological thought; mythical thought attempts to re-use available materials in order to solve new problems
- wise derida extends concept of LS: "If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concept from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur."
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French bricolage do-it-yourself (1927; in spec. use in literary criticism C. Lévi-Strauss La Pensée Sauvage (1962) i. 26)
< bricoler to do small chores (a1859), to fix something ingeniously (1919; 1480 in Middle French in sense ‘to go to and fro’)
< bricole bricole n. + -age -age suffix
(oed)
- practical arts and the fine arts
- construction / creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process
- the means at hand
- assemblage, collage, montage
- merz, schwitters, le corbusier, mies van der rohe
- lévi-strauss: the characteristic patterns of mythological thought; mythical thought attempts to re-use available materials in order to solve new problems
- wise derida extends concept of LS: "If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concept from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur."
(w)
