Revolutionary beauty : the radical photomontages of John Heartfield / Sabine T. Kriebel.

Main entry:

Kriebel, Sabine.

Title & Author:

Revolutionary beauty : the radical photomontages of John Heartfield / Sabine T. Kriebel.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.
Introduction : photomontage, paradigm of the modern -- The subject in circulation -- Photomontage in the age of technological reproducibility -- Photomontage in the year 1932 -- Left-wing laughter -- Revolutionary beauty -- Epilogue : to gratify a wish.

Summary:

This is a study of the German artist John Heartfield's political photomontages, published in the left-wing weekly Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) during the 1930s. It features the critical artistic practices with which Heartfield directly confronted the turbulent, ideologically charged currents of interwar Europe, exposing the cultural politics of the crucial historical moment that witnessed the consolidation of National Socialism. In this period of radicalization and mass mobilization, the medium of photomontage--the cut-and-paste assemblage of photograph and text--offered a way to deconstruct the visual world and galvanize beholders on a mass scale.

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ISBN:

9780520276185 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520276183 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
Heartfield, John 1891-1968
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung
Photomontage.
Politics in art.
Politique dans l'art.
Fotomontage
Photography History 20th century.
Photography Political aspects Germany 20th century.
Politik i konsten.
Politiska karikatyrer.
(gnd)Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
(fast)Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
(gnd)Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung.
(gnd)Photomontage.
(fast)Photomontage.
(fast)Politics in art.

Form/genre:

Photomontages.
Bildband.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285909
Call No.: BIB 225890
Status: Available

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