John Heartfield and the agitated image : photography, persuasion, and the rise of avant-garde photomontage / Andrés Mario Zervigón.

Main entry:

Zervigón, Andrés Mario.

Title & Author:

John Heartfield and the agitated image : photography, persuasion, and the rise of avant-garde photomontage / Andrés Mario Zervigón.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Description:

xii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
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. Zervig̤n explores this crucial period in the life and work of a brilliant, radical artist whose desire to disclose the truth obscured by the mainstream press and imperial propaganda made him a de facto prosecutor of Germany's visual culture.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9780226981772 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0226981770 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
Heartfield, John 1891-1968
Photographers Germany Biography.
Photomontage.
Photographes Allemagne Biographies.
photomontages (visual works)
Photographers
Fotomontage
Fotografie
Germany

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280281
Call No.: BIB 216929
Status: Available

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