Against Hitler!: Photomontages by John Heartfield 1930-38
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994. Very Good +. Item #33942
ISBN: 9652781622
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings indicated. Super octavo (27cm x 20cm); 207pp. Publisher’s stiff pictorial wrappers; photographic endsheets. Images throughout. Wrappers bumped at corners, spine ends, and along edges. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Previous owner’s ex-libris stamp on front wrapper verso with transfer to first free endsheet. Very Good or better.
Exhibition catalogue for Against Hitler!, a selection of Heartfield’s early photomontages displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in the mid-90s. Heartfield was among the first artists to popularize Dadaism, and along with it, photomontage, in Berlin. By repurposing photographs for collage, and thus manipulating accepted representations of reality, photomontage leant itself to satire and social commentary. Heartfield’s work criticized capitalism and fascism, including the Nazi regime. Catalogue text in Hebrew; introduction in English.
Price: $150.00