Heartfield’s photomontages have a harsh, provocative expression as befits the head Berlin Dadaist, but even the most controversial ones conceal a metaphor..
John Heartfield John Heartfield, (1891-1968) nome anglicizzato di Helmut Herzfeld. Dadaista, attivista del partito comunista tedesco, rifugiatosi a Londra durante il nazismo, usava la sua arte unita alla satira come arma politica. È il fondatore del fotomontaggio moderno, ed è stato tra i maggiori artisti europei che hanno conciliato arte e impegno politico. Nel 1950 […]
In spring 2005, the ICP Acquisitions Committee supported the purchase of sixty-three John Heartfield photomontages published in German illustrated newspapers.
The mystery train of Babylon Berlin. Photo: © Sky 1 In the dead of night in 1929, a Steam Locomotive roars down the tracks to Berlin from somewhere in Russi ...
photomontage; political; demonstration
Two Attic vases once owned by Lucien Bonaparte enter the Louvre, while the Getty acquires its first Rodin bronze
In spring 2005, the ICP Acquisitions Committee supported the purchase of sixty-three John Heartfield photomontages published in German illustrated newspapers.
Jack Kirby had choices to make, especially considering he could do it all: writing, penciling, inking, coloring. Along the way he found it prudent to concentrate on what he could do best: dream big and render those flights of fancy in graphite. Why then would he choose to break his stride and search through various magazines in search of the right image, rubber cement in hand? Kirby’s entrée into the world of collage did not begin with the Fantastic Four, or even by his own h
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Big Chief Tate Modern (Posthumously titled)
