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Revolutionary Beauty

By Kriebel, Sabine T.

Revolutionary Beauty

By Kriebel, Sabine T.

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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. Kriebel transforms our understandings of montage as a quintessentially modern practice. Central to that reconceptualization is suture, a concept integral to film theory but recruited in this book to explore the psychic operations of Heartfield's seamlessly welded AIZ photomontages. Revolutionary Beauty proposes that the language of sutured illusionism constitutes one of the most important and overlooked critiques of modern media, wherein a radical reassessment resides in suture. Scholars of photography, modern and contemporary art history, media studies, and European history will doubtlessly embrace this book.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2014-02-21
Publication Date:
2014-04-11
Publisher:
University of California
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0520276183
ISBN13:
9780520276185
Weight:
1038 g
Height:
187 cm
Width:
261 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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