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Author Zervigón, Andrés Mario.

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

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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 obscure.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Photograph and the Punch: 1891-1914; 2. Postcards to the Front and the Road toward Photomontage: 1915-1916; 3. Heartfield the Performance: 1914-1917; 4. "A Political Struwwelpeter?" John Heartfield's Early Film Animation and the Wartime Crisis of Photographic Representation: 1917-1918; 5. A Spectacular Reflection: Heartfield's Return to Photomontage and Berlin's Postwar Dada Movement: 1918-1920; 6. From the Shop Window to the Book Cover: 1920-1929; Epilogue: The Artist of German Communism: 1926-1933; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
Photographers -- Germany -- Biography.
Photographers.
Germany.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Photomontage.
Photomontage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Zervigón, Andrés Mario. John Heartfield and the agitated image. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226981772 (DLC) 2011034931 (OCoLC)754518530
ISBN 9780226981789 (electronic book)
0226981789 (electronic book)
9780226981772
0226981770
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