Comments on: Alan Dein's East End Decollage, 1989 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/14/alan-deins-east-end-decollage-1989/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:18:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/14/alan-deins-east-end-decollage-1989/#comment-934 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:18:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=11876#comment-934 “evidence of the decline of manufacturing, the politicisation of the Asian presence and the enduring radical tradition set against the end of Communism”

fascinating.

this sight of these pieces reminded me of the work of the great american collageur, Romare Bearden. i don’t know how radical or politicized he was, but as an african american/social worker artist, one assumes a certain awareness. he began collaging in the 1960s, the civil rights activist era here in the states, and his pieces — collected in a large 2004 retrospective, stand as surreal, jazz-inflected, both a scissored deconstruction of media images of black people and a reconstruction. very, very radical and fascinating.
thanks for this.

]]> By: Welwynder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/14/alan-deins-east-end-decollage-1989/#comment-933 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:18:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=11876#comment-933 Extraordinary how photographs of something in a state of semi-destruction and disappearance can be so powerful, so eloquent – as you say, it’s all in the layers. Thanks, as always, for sharing these.

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