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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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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Heartfield, John, 1891-1968.
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Heartfield, John, 1891-1968. |
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Photographers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Photographers. |
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Germany. |
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Biographies.
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Photomontage.
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Photomontage. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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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) |
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0226981789 (electronic book) |
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9780226981772 |
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0226981770 |
Standard No. |
40021618645 |
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