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Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 18911968) 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 , Andrs Mario Zervign 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 Germanys visual culture. Zervign charts the evolution of Heartfields 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 Heartfields engagement with montage arose from dissatisfaction with photographys capacity to represent the modern world, and the result was likely the most important combination of avant-garde art and politics in the twentieth century. A rare look at Heartfields early and middle years as an artist an

Author

Zervigón, Andrés Mario

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226981772

Subjects

Photography, Memoir, Biography