Heartfield and the Agitated Image



Andres Mario Zervigon

2012
HEARTFIELD, JOHN - Zervigón, Andrés Mario.

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image. Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde. Chicago 2012. 4to. 344 S. mit 143 (9 farb.) Abb., Ppbd.

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Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) 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, Andrés Mario Zervigón 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 Germany's visual culture.

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