Narrations: in this part, Magagnini retraces significant moments in the history of montage, using highly original and carefully chosen artwork. Those were the years when drawing disappeared (it never really disappeared but shifted to a different level and took on another meaning) and photography emerged as a means of mass communication.
The last part is that of testimonies: interviews well orchestrated by the author, who has chosen very diverse people whose practice is paradigmatic of both the art and architectural worlds. More than all other groups, Superstudio wrote the history of montage both technically speaking and in terms of content. The interview with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia contains an excellent passage that visits different registers and passes from the single picture to its constituent parts and the production of that picture. A picture indicates a story that takes shape via the bringing together of texts, drawings and photographs.
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1. Rosalind Krauss, Under Blue Cup, The MIT Press, 2011