The chatter of the visible : montage and narrative in Weimar Germany / Patrizia C. McBride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McBride, Patrizia C.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Germany--History--1918-1933.

Photography.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photomontage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. White 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-a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by "flat" print media (especially the novel and other literary genres). McBride's contribution to the conversation around Weimar-era montage is in her situation of the form of the work as a discursive practice in its own right, which affords humans a new way to negotiate temporality; as a particular mode of thinking that productively relates the particular to the universal; or as a culturally specific form of cognition. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Weimar-Era Montage: Perception, Expression, Storytelling 14

2 The Narrative Restitution of Experience: Walter Benjamin's Storytelling 41

3 Storytelling in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Benjamin on Film and Montage 62

4 Narrating in Three Dimensions: László Moholy-Nagy's "Vision in Motion" 83

5 Narrative Resemblance and the Modernist Photobook 111

6 Abstraction and Montage in the Work of Kurt Schwitters 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472073030

9780472053032

9780472121700

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8814717

Access Restriction:

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