| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
The photograph and the punch : 1891-1914 -- Postcards to the front and the road toward photomontage : 1915-1916 -- Heartfield the performance : 1914-1917 -- "A political Struwwelpeter?" John Heartfield's early film animation and the wartime crisis of photographic representation : 1917-1918 -- A spectacular reflection : Heartfield's return to photomontage and Berlin's postwar Dada movement : 1918-1920 -- From the shop window to the book cover : 1920-1929 -- Epilogue: The artist of German Communism : 1926-1933 |
| Summary |
Working in Germany between the two world wars, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. As a pioneer of modern photomontage, he sliced up mass media photos with his iconic scissors and then reassembled the fragments into compositions that utterly transformed the meaning of the originals. In John Heartfield and the Agitated Image, Andrés Mario Zervigón explores this crucial period in the life and work of a brilliant, radical artist whose desire to disclose the truth obscure |
| Analysis |
photos, mass media, photomontage, appropriation, transformation, social commentary, politics, nonfiction, germany, artists, avant-garde, visual culture, resistance, political art, weimar republic, campaign posters, montage, representation, interwar, film animation, war, communism, dada movement, berlin, heartfield, press, history, propaganda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
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| SUBJECT |
Heartfield, John, 1891-1968 fast |
| Subject |
Photographers -- Germany -- Biography
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Photomontage.
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photomontages (visual works)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Photographers
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Photomontage
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Germany
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226981789 |
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0226981789 |
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