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Political poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage 1920-1938 / Heartfeld J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47137-49877
Scope and Contents

This folded pamphlet has one page of critical text and unfolded a reproduced Heartfield propoganda poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Basta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Heartfield J; Millet C., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12169-12393
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The image is a photocollage by Heartfield depicted the Nazi Swatstika formed by four axes. The caption quotes Catherine Millet, editor of Art Press Paris, who was highly critical of Finlay's work for the city of Paris, "I saw a work, I saw Nazi signs carved on it, basta..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

John Heartfeld / Heartfield, John ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; Rodchenko A ; Grosz A ; Huelsenbeck R ; Picabia F ; Tschichold J ; Herzfelde W ; Richter H ; Mehring W ; Huidobro V ; Mayakovsky V ; Klucis G., 1992

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Identifier: CC-27387-28428
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This exhibition catalogue was adapted from the German edition published on the occasion of Heartfeld's exhibition at the Akadamie der Kunste zu Berlin in 1991. John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, is known primarily as an inventor of photomontage. He was a master of bitter, satiric art using images and texts from newspapers, magazines, and advertisements juxtaposing incongruous details and creating strong images. Heartfield's aim was to mobilize social energy and expose the evils and corruptions of Nazi Germany. Fleeing Germany when Hitler came to power, Heartfield worked in England creating graphic design illustrations for the publishing industry. Several designs for book covers and dust jackets by a number of writers are reproduced in the book. Heartfeld was an active member of the Dada group in Germany in the 1920's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

No.100: George Grosz, John Heartfield, and the Malik Verlag / Ars Libri ; Grosz G ; Heartfield J ; Heartfeld W., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26671-27141
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This catalog of an extensive collection of Grosz and the Heartfield brothers' works was to be sold as an collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Participacion. No.3/Aug / Clemente Padin, editor ; Heartfeld J., 1984

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Identifier: CC-38583-40491
Scope and Contents

The theme of this issue is John Heartfeld. It is stored in the box with Padin's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984