montage.city: constructive montage and the image of the city

montage.city : constructive montage and the image of the city constructive montage my phd by project attempts to place an interdisciplinary practice that involves art, architecture and photography into a philosophical frame, but one firmly rooted in praxis; and [pre]historically

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montage-modernity-and the wild west

montage with its spatial origins in dublin (joyce), paris (surrealism), berlin (dada, brecht, hartmann)) and moscow (eisenstein vertov), the increasingly fragmented world gives rise to the the technique of fragment. benjamin sees the passagenwork as a lexicon of capitalist modernity, its