cubomania

{{Short description|Surrealist method of making collages}}

Cubomania is a Surrealist technique of making collages by cutting an image into squares and reassembling without regard for the original image at random{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Hirsch|title=Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age|url=https://archive.org/details/westwoodlightlen00hirs|url-access=limited|publisher=Focal Press|year=2007|pages=[https://archive.org/details/westwoodlightlen00hirs/page/n227 209]|isbn=978-0-240-80855-0}}{{cite web|title=Michelles of Delaware: Originals|url=http://www.michellesofdelaware.com/originals.html|access-date=2007-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080628193258/http://www.michellesofdelaware.com/originals.html|archive-date=2008-06-28|url-status=dead}} to create something new.{{cite book|first=Franklin|last=Rosemont|title=Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture|publisher=Charles H. Kerr|year=2003|pages=500|isbn=978-0-88286-264-4}}

The technique was invented by the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca.{{cite web|title=Fine Art prints 3D Surrealism Pictures Neo-surrealism Art|url=http://www.geocities.com/ggrie/|access-date=2007-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028001354/http://www.geocities.com/ggrie/ |archive-date=2007-10-28}}{{cite web|title=U B U W E B :: Gherasim Luca|url=http://www.ubu.com/sound/luca.html|access-date=2007-09-21|archive-date=2021-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924072457/https://www.ubu.com/sound/luca.html|url-status=live}} Luca introduced cubomania at two exhibitions in Bucharest, in 1945 and 1946, and in small publications.{{cite journal |last1=Fijalkowski |first1=Krzysztof |title=Cubomania: Gherasim Luca and Non-Oedipal Collage |journal=Dada/Surrealism |issue=20 |url=https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/dadasur/article/29326/galley/137758/view/ |access-date=16 July 2022 |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716055223/https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/dadasur/article/29326/galley/137758/view/ |url-status=live }} Luca positioned cubomania as a mix of Karl Marx's and André Breton's ideas. It was a critique of the alleged objectivity of social conditions and rejected the tyranny over liberty.

It has been described as a "statistical method".{{cite web|title=Surrealist games - SourceryForge |url=http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Surrealist_games |access-date=2007-09-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011085449/http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Surrealist_games |archive-date=2007-10-11 }}

Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski have suggested that cubomania can "subvert the enslaving 'message' of advertising and to free images from repressive contexts."{{cite book|title=Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights|isbn=978-0-941194-43-3|publisher=Black Swan Press|year=2000|pages=125}}