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From The Money $how Book

Gavin Benjamin's Heads of State series ( @gavinbenjamin ) serves up images of Black wealth in a way not unlike W.E.B. Du Bois did at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

"Money is at the heart of much of our social discord. Disparity of wealth has always been a hallmark of America. From the plantation-owning founding fathers to the robber barons of the 19th century to the corporate raiders of the 1980s, the stories of the elite class have shaped American history. Less appreciated are the histories of how people of color have been prevented from building institutional and family wealth" MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

The Fool and His Money by Louis Dalrymple from Puck Magazine in 1899 and Don't You Wish You Could Jump? by Ric Kasini Kadour

When COVID-19 began spreading across the world and people could not go to work and had to stay in their homes. Governments scrambled to create relief packages for those financially impacted...the U.S. government magically created $2.2 trillion, all dedicated to the welfare of the people of the United States. There was no collapse of the global economy. In fact, there was general consensus that this was the right thing to do....We think social problems are about money but they are not. They are about our willingness to care. MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

Tolowa Man Measures Shell Money by Edward S. Curtis and the blended portraits of Alexander Hamilton and Erasmus of Rotterdam by Michael Koppa

"Money owes its existence to an idea of the other. We use money to engage those outside of our social unit. If my husband brings me a sandwich, I am not expected to tip him. If I fix a leaky pipe around the house, I do not send him an invoice. If you call up a friend and talk about your problems for an hour, they will not send you a bill. However, we routinely pay waiters, plumbers, and therapists for these services because they are outside of our social unit....We think money pervades all aspects of life, but it really doesn’t. Money only becomes a thing when you encounter the Other." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town by Carol M. Highsmith and a detail of Gold Rush by Maxomatic

"In late-stage capitalism, this is how large corporations work....Gold Rush towns fail to become thriving, stable enterprises because the acquisition and hoarding of money supersedes the development of viable communities." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

Banks in Iowa and Michigan

"Money demands that its users have faith in it. An out-of-this-world observer wouldn’t be remiss if they described banks as temples and people’s use of them as worship." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

The Almightier in Puck Magazine in 1907 and Tribute by Carey Watters

"We are quick to characterize non-Western cultural practices as religious, mysterious, and magical, and in doing so suggest the practitioners fail to distinguish between knowledge and mythology. Rarely, however, do we apply such raw observation to our own contemporary culture." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

Women in 1917 preparing money at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D. C. Artist Mark Wagner turns dollar bills into collage.

"I am not an economist. I am neither a capitalist nor a marxist. I am an artist and a writer interested in the human experience of money. I am interested in how we get along with each other. I believe our relationship to money is at the heart of our social discord and that the cure to discord is greater understanding. My hope is that this book will lead to a deeper understanding of money and its role in our lives, culture, and relationship to others." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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From The Money $how Book

The mining business in four pictures: a lithograph from the 1850's and a detail of Gold Rush by @Maxomatic

"In Gold Rushes, people work for their own gains and when they can no longer extract wealth from a place, they move on. The storekeeper and brothel owner they leave behind are of no concern to them. Money allows their wealth to be portable. They simply get on their horse and ride out of town." MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one’s thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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