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Sabine T. Kriebel, "Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield"
English | ISBN: 0520276183 | 2014 | 352 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Revolutionary Beauty offers the first sustained study of the German artist John Heartfield's groundbreaking political photomontages, published in the left-wing weekly Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) during the 1930s. Sabine T. Kriebel foregrounds the critical artistic practices with which Heartfield directly confronted the turbulent, ideologically charged currents of interwar Europe, exposing the cultural politics of the crucial historical moment that witnessed the consolidation of National Socialism. In this period of radicalization and mass mobilization, the medium of photomontage―the cut-and-paste assemblage of photograph and text―offered a way to deconstruct the visual world and galvanize beholders on a mass scale.