1. Representing the Past in Photomontage: John Heartfield as a Visual Historian
- Author
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Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans and History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
- Subjects
Cultural Studies ,modernism ,History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Sociology and Political Science ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Point (typography) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,World War II ,Photography ,Modernism (music) ,Art ,photomontage ,photography ,Visual arts ,Music ,Period (music) ,media_common ,representations of history - Abstract
The practice of history and the technique of montage seem to have met at some point of their development to forge a new way of thinking about the past. This new paradigm crystallized around the period between the First and the Second World War, when the proliferation of montage techniques in visual arts and film was accompanied by a broad theoretical discussion on the relevance of the new procedure in arranging and organizing photographic ‘facts’.
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- 2008