BEFORE PUBLICATION/ MONTAGE IN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND BOOK DESIGN. A READER

The contributors to Before Publication consider the construction of visual meaning through montage, with each essay taking as its st arting point a particular artifact from Ed Ruschas photobook Every Building on the Sunset Strip to works by Sergei Eisenstein, Muri el Cooper, and Marshall McLuhan to Tristan Tzaras unpublished Dadaglobe anthology. A common theme threading throughout the texts is the relationshipbetween privacy and publicity. A concise introduction by the books editors, Nanni Baltzer and Martino Stierli, pla ces the eig...[Read more]