“If scrapbooks can be distilled to one overarching interpretive theme, it is that of rupture.”
“What could be more emblematic of the fractured narratives of modernity than scrapbooks?”
“[An] excess of fragments that burst the bindings and bulge the pages.”
“How then do we read these fragments as cultural artifacts?”1
Newspaper clippings were frequently pasted into scrapbooks, and sometimes, as in the case of the scrapbook shown here, compose the entirety of the scrapbook’s contents: Continue reading “The Newspaper and Its Disjecta Membra”