Magda Dragu

Broschiertes Buch

Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage

Beschreibung

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

Magda Dragu distinguishes between the concepts of collage and montage, as defined across several media (fine arts, literature, music, film, photography), based on the type of artistic meaning they generate, rather than the mechanical procedures involved. The book applies theories of intermediality to collage and montage, which is crucial for understanding collage as a form of cultural production. Throughout, the author considers the political implications, as collages and montages were often used for propagandistic purposes.

This book combines research methods used in several areas of inquiry: art history, literary criticism, analytical philosophy, musicology, and aesthetics.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Art History
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 174mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781032337098
• ISBN-10: 1032337095
• Artikelnr.: 67528933

Rezensionen

"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 poisein 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