...Collage politicizes art by confronting the viewer with actual pieces of reality within a frame that has traditionally signified the separation of art and reality, aesthetic immanence and life praxis... Collage obliges the audience to recognize the motivations behind the choice of the elements extracted, as well as the significance of their new juxtaposition. It argues by concrete example rather than discursive reasoning... [for example] Benjamins Arcades Project validates the principle of montage construction as the basis for what Susan Buck-Morss calls the dialectics of seeing, by which she means the interpretive power of images that make conceptual points concretely with reference to the world outside the text. And it is precisely this interpretive power of images that makers of found footage films count on when they construct their critiques of the image world lying outside their own filmic texts. -William Wees, Recycled Images
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:33:42 +0000
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