“In themselves, the pictures, the phases, the elements of the whole are innocent and indecipherable. The blow is struck only when the elements are juxtaposed into a sequential image.”
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SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN: MONTAGE AND ARCHITECTURE (CA. 1938) IN: ASSEMBLAGE 10, DEZEMBER 1989, S. 111-131
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