John Heartfield - PHOTOGRAPHY PLUS DYNAMITE

With designs for book jackets, magazines, and political pamphlets, John Heartfield (1891-1968) established himself as Berlin's most innovative graphic designer of the Weimar period. While he was initially associated with the Dada movement, his affiliations with the communist party and the rise of Nazism eventually led him to change his approach, shifting his artistic output to spreading messages and fighting political opponents. Dissecting and reassembling press images with great verve and humor, Heartfield created photomontages that aimed to reveal the bitter truths of contemporary politics to a mass audience. Oscillating between innovative graphic design, agitation, and political propaganda, Heartfield was trully cutting-edge.

This lavishly illustrated volume draws on the rich collection of Heartfield's work found in of the Akademie der K nste's archives, given to the
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