Pulo do gato: o encontro com o antiquado na era da obra de arte montável

Abstract

This work's subject is montage, a method applied in various fields, such as cinema, visual artsand philosophy. What we will seek to understand is the relationship between montage and the encounter with the outmoded, which can be perceived as an antinomy, referring both to fashion cycles and to the possibility of the dialectical leap described by Walter Benjamin in his “Theses on the concept of history”. Going through the cultural transformations of the 19th century and popular activities at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as studying some works by artists such as Sergei Eisenstein, Hannah Höch, André Breton, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell and Sara Cwynar, among others, we verify the presence of montage and seek to clarify the relevance, nowadays, of the montage of asynchronous forms as a strategy in the condition of “comingafter”, as a method to mine the mnemonic dimension of the outmoded.