Re: collage film history

From: Esperanza Collado (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 14:19:42 PDT


Even if there are clear distinctions between collage/montage/assemblage etc.
they all obviously belong to the samebreed"

2009/6/29 Jeanne LIOTTA <email suppressed>

> strictly speaking 'collage' means to paste or glue, a 2-d activity that
> refers to construction methods and materials. We often use the word
> connotatively, but if we are to make clear any differences between collage,
> assemblage, and montage and their relations to artistic practice it seems
> wise to proceed from strict definations. For what its worth, Joseph Cornell
> often worked in 2D collage and refered to his 1939 work on film 'Rose
> Hobart' as "a Film-collage of Rose Hobart" at one of its earliest public
> screenings. Not because it was *collage-like*, but because it was in fact a
> collage, an assortment of 2D strips of material constructed into a whole
> using a gluing agent.
> No?
> Or does that make every film a collage?
> ;)Jeanne
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