Kazimierz Podsadecki and Janusz Maria Brzeski: Photomontage between the avant-garde and mass culture

Autor:	Stanisław Czekalski
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry Interpretation (philosophy) Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Sensationalism Art history Art Visual arts Entertainment Movie theater Typography Utopia Realm business media_common
Zdroj:	History of Photography. 29:256-274
ISSN:	2150-7295 0308-7298
DOI:	10.1080/03087298.2005.10442801
Popis:	The photomontages by Kazimierz Podsadecki and Janusz Maria Brzeski are among the most important of their kind in interwar Poland. These works have a rightful place among avant-garde experiments in typography, photography and film; on the other hand, as illustrations made for a sensationalist press, they belong solidly to the mass cultural entertainment of their day. This essay offers an interpretation of Podsadecki's and Brzeski's visual idiom in relation both to an avant-garde programme and to the discursive practice of popular illustrated magazines, in which modernity was mythologized through trivial stereotypes. Avant-garde and popular codes meet in the realm of cinema, and in the subject of incipient Americanisation (i.e. technologisation) of daily life. Brzeski and Podsadecki's works betray a constructivist utopia accented by melodramatic catastrophe, for instance Chicago as a “city of crime” or the future as a world ruled by machines.
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