The chatter of the visible : montage and narrative in Weimar Germany /
Examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photomontage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBrid...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photomontage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers a historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photomontage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472073030 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0472073036 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780472053032 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0472053035 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |