Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage

ISBN-13: 9781032337098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

Magda Dragu

Opis

This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period.

Recenzje

"Dragu's book is ... a valuable addition to the field of modernist studies. The meticulous research conducted is a particular strength of the volume."

--The Modernist Review

"Dragu's book is a much-needed, meticulously researched and highly original contribution to a field that is undergoing a resurgence of critical interest."

--Polish Journal of English Studies

"Dragu's book helps one better comprehend the materiality of the literary and artistic works of the early avant-garde employing the techniques of collage and montage, opening new areas of research and inquiry into the international and national historical avant-gardes."

--Mozaicul

"Dragu's work provides a clearly structured history of the development of collage and montage techniques over the last century. At the same time, it can be recommended to anyone who wishes to use these concepts in their research and who wants the same conceptual precision and poise in their text as in Dragu's work. One can, of course, continue along the paths opened up by Dragu: make further interesting distinctions and even explore the intermedial dimensions of music from the less formalistic perspective required by the study of earlier periods."

--Trio

Spis treści

Part One: Theories of intermediality: form and meaning

1. The history

2. The theory

Part Two: Collage

3. A heterogeneous articulation of meaning: avant-garde visual and verbal collage

4. "The whole shebang!": musical collage and meaning

Part Three: From collage to montage

5. ‘Transparent’ replacements: visual collage and heterogeneous photomontage

6. Intermedial models: film montage and homogeneous photomontage

7. Chasing the ‘greased pig’ of meaning: literary and musical montage

 

O autorze

Magda Dragu is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.