The Chatter of the Visible 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 an 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 itmdash;a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by ldquo;flatrdquo; print media (especially the novel and other literary genres).
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