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73:. The piece took roughly 3 years to complete. It is composed entirely of magazines which were obtained for free or dumpster dived from book stores. The name is derived from the literary device, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition - and analysis - which involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence. 89: 31: 81:
In 2010, Christian Verdun finished his second piece escape which was done using the same style of his previous work. He continued the trend of using pictures of major historical significance. However this time he moved to mixing French and English text, presumably because of the French colonization
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Assemblage poem arranged to make a picture of the last helicopter out of Saigon, and the crowd on the stairwell passing up a baby
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In 2013, he finished his third 11x8 inch piece anonymous, created from words cut from the comic book
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Epic assemblage poem arranged to make a picture of the theater box Lincoln was assassinated in
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Rescher, Nicholas. Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution. Open Court: Chicago, 2001.
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of Vietnam. This image is much smaller measuring 12 inches by 12 inches.
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utilizing the style of the previous work titled escape. Christian attended
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which were remixed back together to form a picture of V wearing a
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Paradox is a cut-up poetry collage forming a picture of
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is an American artist best known for his work on the
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Paradox (assemblage)

cut-up
Paradox
assemblage
UC Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Theater

V for Vendetta
Guy Fawkes
"Chicago Sun Times Interview"
the original
"Unknown"
Categories
Living people
American artists
University of California, Davis alumni

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