The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany

Synopsis

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. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Weimar-era Montage: Perception, Expression, Storytelling -- 2. Narrative Restitution Of Experience: Walter Benjamins Storytelling -- 3. Storytelling In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility: Benjamin On Film And Montage -- 4. Narrating In Three Dimensions: Laszlo Moholy-nagy's Vision In Motion -- 5. Narrative Resemblance And The Modernist Photobook -- 6. Abstraction And Montage In The Work Of Kurt Schwitters. Patrizia C. Mcbride. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.