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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zervigón, Andrés Mario (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
Heartfield, John, > 1891-1968.
Photographers > Germany > Biography.
Photomontage.
Photographes > Allemagne > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > General.
Photographers.
Germany.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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