Movie Poster Decollage

A decollage is the opposite of a collage. Instead of adding bits and pieces of images onto another image as artists do in a collage, in a decollage, the artist cuts, rips, tears and removes bits and pieces of an image (preferably handbills pasted atop other handbills pasted on even more handbills on a wall) to expose other images and textures that lay beneath it, creating accidental and unexpected juxtapositions, connections and compositions. Some call it action painting without the painting. Wikipedia entry here. The most renown decollagist was Italian Mimmo Rotella, who died earlier this year. Here's an excellent gallery of movie poster decollage, most of the posters of a late '50s and '60s vintage.