Photomontage in Motion: USSR and Central Europe

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel addresses the varieties of photomontage that evolved in the USSR and Central Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. In emphasizing “utilitarian” photomontage in print products outside of the avant-garde, the papers extend a newly contextualize the nature of this photography-based technique. Presentations address photomontage in books, magazines, posters and other “minor” media such as post cards, stressing their interconnected nature.

Sub Unit

• Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts

Chair

• Jindrich Toman, U of Michigan

Papers

• Cinepoetry of Emancipation - Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia U

• Media Conversations: Photomontage in Soviet Posters, Books and Postcards of the Interwar Time - Jindrich Toman, U of Michigan

• Photomontage across Central and Eastern Europe - Andres Mario Zervigon, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Discussant

• Meghan Leigh Forbes, Independent Scholar & Curator