Before Publication
Montage in Art, Architecture, and Book Design
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Beschreibung
Der Fotograf Ed Ruscha, die Gestalterin Muriel Coopers und der Dada-Gründer Tristan Tzara: die Praxis der Montage in Kunst, Architektur und Buchgestaltung
At some point before publication, a book assumes its final form, the form in which it is experienced by its audience. Naturally, this audience is often oblivious to the many sometimes complex decisions involved in constructing visual meaning through the montage of different ideas and elements. But, although these deliberate decisions are not normally communicated to the audience, the book is always to some extent a conception, or mediated presentation.
The contributors to Before Publication consider the construction of visual meaning through montage, with each essay taking as its starting point a particular artifact—from Ed Ruscha’s photobook Every Building on the Sunset Strip to works by Sergei Eisenstein, Muriel Cooper, and Marshall McLuhan to Tristan Tzara’s unpublished Dadaglobe anthology. A common theme threading throughout the texts is the relationship between privacy and publicity. A concise introduction by the book’s editors, Nanni Baltzer and Martino Stierli, places the eight exemplary artifacts in context and discusses the broader subject of montage in art, architecture, and book design.
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Nanni Baltzer
Themen in »Before Publication«
Art Film Kunst Design Montage Art theory Fotografie Gestaltung Ruscha, Ed Architektur Art history Book design Photography Architecture Kunsttheorie
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«Park Books veröffentlicht einen schmalen, informativen Reader, dem es gelingt, das Bild nicht über den Text zu stellen und dabei nicht in historiografische Trockenheit zu verfallen, sondern beide Informationsmethoden sich ergänzen zu lassen.» Jonis Hartmann, textem.de
«Kongenial auch die Typografie.» Gerald Rödler, architektur.aktuell
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