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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McBride, Patrizia C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Knowledge Unlatched.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Weimar-Era Montage: Perception, Expression, Storytelling
  • 2. The Narrative Restitution of Experience: Walter Benjamin's Storytelling
  • 3. Storytelling in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Benjamin on Film and Montage
  • 4. Narrating in Three Dimensions: László Moholy-Nagy's "Vision in Motion"
  • 5. Narrative Resemblance and the Modernist Photobook
  • 6. Abstraction and Montage in the Work of Kurt Schwitters
  • Conclusion: Montage after Weimar.