SUMMER COLLAGE READING
Oh, Cash! Cash! by Eleanor H. Porter is illustrated by a collective of collage artists. In Porter’s 1918 novel, a Chicago multi-millionaire struggles to resolve to whom he ought to depart his cash. As an eccentric experiment, he schemes to offer his three distant cousins 100 thousand {dollars} every to see how they deal with the windfall. The e-book is a time capsule of early twentieth century American life with a robust give attention to the lives of girls and observations about materials tradition and communities earlier than the rampant consumerism of the Nineteen Twenties and the Nice Despair. In telling this story, Porter provides us a have a look at the function of and attitudes about cash that stay related right this moment. The e-book raises vital questions in regards to the function of cash in our lives: What good is cash? Is cash merciless? How ought to one deal with cash? How does cash change us? Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.