Collage has been central to Cunningham's work from the very beginning in the 1950s. Unlike Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk, which exemplifies a hunger for wholeness, collage appeals to an age that has come to distrust claims of closure, “unity,” and fixed boundaries.

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