The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the...
moreThe Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the montage 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, this study offers an historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it—a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by “flat” print media (especially the novel and other literary genres). -
See more at:
https://www.press.umich.edu/8814831/chatter_of_the_visible#sthash.VSa4LyJ8.dpuf
Book talk for Chats in the Stacks, Cornell University Library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qllhJPz61EM
