Affiches laceres (another term for torn posters)

 

Assemblage:  sculptural composition consisting of an arrangement of miscellaneous objects or found materials

 

Boardism - making reliefs or constructions from wooden boards

 

Brulage - burning or scorching

 

Bricolage:  something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available:

 

Collage: pasting or gluing; specifically, pasting paper, cloth, etc. into pictures.

      (Max Ernst said that collage is the meeting of two distant realities on a plane   foreign to them both.)

 

Coulage - leaking ( dripping wet paint)

 

Decalcomanie: patterns left by wet paint.

 

Dechirage: tearing paper in collage.

 

Dechirage moulle -tearing wet paper

 

Decollage: ungluing, unpasting, unsticking or partially pasted.

 

Decoupage: cutting out or up with knife, scissors or other tool.

 

Depouillage: stripping, peeling

 

Ephemera: plural of ephemeron; from the Greek word ephemeros, which means 'lasting but a day,' ephemera refers to anything transitory or short lived; items produced, regardless of the century, that were not meant to last are considered ephemera. Items included in the catch all category ephemera include 19th century valentines, political posters and buttons, and invitations to film premiers and gala openings

 

Froissage: crumpling, creasing, crushing.

 

Frottage: rubbing; transferring a relief pattern.

 

Fumage: creating patterns or tones by smoking a surface.

 

Grattage: scratching or scraping a pattern

 

Lacere anonyme: torn poster(s) used in art work.

 

Montage: process of combining pictorial elements from several sources so that elements are both distinct and blended into an overall artistic piece.

 

Objet trouve: found object (driftwood, stone, shell, glass not paper).

 

Papier colle: a collage of pasted paper.