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John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage

Автор: Andres Mario Zervigon
Год: 2012
Издание: [не указанo]
Страниц: 336
ISBN: 0226981770
Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891a??1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that transformed the meaning of the mass-media photos from which they were taken. In John Heartfield and the Agitated Image, AndrA©s Mario ZervigA?n explores this crucial period in the life and work of this brilliant, radical artist whose desire to disclose the truth obscured by the mainstream press and the propaganda of politicians made him a de facto prosecutor of Germanya??s visual culture.ZervigA?n charts the evolution of Heartfielda??s photomontage from an act of antiwar resistance into a formalized and widely disseminated political art in the Weimar Republic, when his work appeared on everything from campaign posters to book covers. He explains how Heartfielda??s engagement with montage arose from dissatisfaction with photographya??s...

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