John Heartfield and the Agitated Image

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 330
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226981789
ISBN-13 : 0226981789
Rating : 4/5 (789 Downloads)

Book Synopsis John Heartfield and the Agitated Image by : Andrés Mario Zervigón

Download or read book John Heartfield and the Agitated Image written by Andrés Mario Zervigón and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In John Heartfield and the Agitated Image, Andrés Mario Zervigón 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. Zervigón charts the evolution of Heartfield’s photomontage from an act of antiwar resistance into a formalized and widely disseminated political art in the Weimar Republic. Appearing on everything from campaign posters to book covers, the photomonteur’s notorious pictures challenged well-worn assumption and correspondingly walked a dangerous tightrope over the political, social, and cultural cauldron that was interwar Germany. Zervigón explains how Heartfield’s engagement with montage arose from a broadly-shared dissatisfaction with photography’s capacity to represent the modern world. The result was likely the most important combination of avant-garde art and politics in the twentieth century. A rare look at Heartfield’s early and middle years as an artist and designer, this book provides a new understanding of photography’s role at this critical juncture in history.


John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Related Books

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Andrés Mario Zervigón
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

Working in Germany between the two world wars, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891–1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing p
Avant-garde Art in Everyday Life
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Matthew S. Witkovsky
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Art Inst of Chicago

GET EBOOK

Presents profiles of six European artists and photographs of their work to showcase the use of modernism on objects and products used for daily life during the
Photography and Its Origins
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Tanya Sheehan
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-20 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and pro
Postcards
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: David Prochaska
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

GET EBOOK

Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and rac
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Erika Wolf
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

GET EBOOK

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a polit