This document provides examples of different ways text is used in collage artworks, including as an advertising format to create subversive messages like Barbara Kruger, as a pattern or implied line like Almudena Blanca, and as an evocative or poetic element like Holly Chastain. Specific artists are listed under each text usage category, such as Banksy using text as a message or Erin Ashley using text as an image. The document examines text's various roles that collage artists employ.

1. TEXT IN COLLAGE

2. Use advertising format to
create “subversive”
messages
(Barbara Kruger)

3. Barbara Kruger

4. Use Text as pattern or
implied line
(Almudena Blanca)

5. Elizabeth Travelslight

6. Karen Justis

7. Italian book cover – 14th C

8. Text as
evocative or
poetic element
(Holly Chastain)

9. Nancy Spero

10. Shao Kun

11. Text as decorative element

12. Text as title (Robert Mars)

13. Squeak Carnwath

14. Travis Somerville

15. Text as message (Banksy)

16. Banksy

17. Travis Somerville

18. Text as image
(Erin Ashley)

19. Erin Ashley

20. Mark Bradford

21. Mark Bradford