Raoul Hausmann, Head, 1923-24, Collage of pasted papers.





















Postcard, German, circa 1902. Photomontage. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg

Collage as a fine art medium is a radical shift in art, not only in conception but also in perception, process and end product. The technique of collage was ideally suited to capture the noise, speed, time and duration of the twentieth-century urban, industrial experience. Collage serves to document the social life of an artist.