Main entry:

Wolf, Erika, 1963- author.

Title & Author:

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky : photomontage as a weapon of World War II and the Cold War / Erika Wolf.

Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]

Description:

368 pages ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Vladimir Zhitomirsky -- Introduction : photomontage as weapon -- Mastering his craft : education and early professional work -- Propaganda bombing : World War II photomontages -- "Down with the warmongers!" : early Cold War photomontages -- In struggle united : John Heartfield, Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, and socialist political photomontage after the 1930s -- Drawing as the foundation of Zhitomirsky's photomontage -- Plates -- The art of political photomontage : advice for the artist / Aleksandr Zhitomirsky -- Chronology and exhibition history -- Bibliography -- Selected acronyms and organizations -- Index -- Photography credits.

Summary:

"The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras and educating his public about Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, and Nicaragua as well. Zhitomirsky favored the grotesque and the eye-catching. His villainous menagerie included Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels as a distorted simian and an airborne scorpion outfitted with an Uncle Sam hat. In this comprehensive, image-driven account of Zhitomirsky's long career, Erika Wolf explores his connections to and long friendship with the German artist John Heartfield, whose work inspired his own. Wolf also examines more than 100 of Zhitomirsky's photomontages and translates excerpts from his one published book, The Art of Political Photomontage: Advice for the Artist (1983). In an era when satirical photomontage thrives on the Internet and propaganda has reasserted itself in America and Russia alike, this study of a once-prominent yet internationally undiscovered artist is more than timely"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300219180 (hardback)
0300219180 (hardback)

Subject:

Zhitomirskiĭ, Aleksandr, 1907-1993 Criticism and interpretation.
Heartfield, John, 1891-1968 Influence.
Zhitomirsky, Alexander, 1907-1993.
Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
Zhitomirskiĭ, Aleksandr, 1907-1993.
Photomontage.
ART Russian & Former Soviet Union.
ART History Contemporary (1945- )
ART Mixed Media.
ART Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions General.
HISTORY Europe Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Zhitomirskiĭ, Aleksandr, 1907-1993. Iskusstvo politicheskogo fotomontazha. Selections. English.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307346
Call No.: BIB 252835
Status: Available