print email comment close Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938 URL: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/ Description: Background for an exhibit of works by this artist who was active "in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, [and who] developed a unique method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect." Includes a discussion of his development as an artist with roots in the Dada movement, and selected images such as "Adolf [Hitler], the Superman, Swallows Gold and Spouts Tin." From From the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Extra Keywords Nazi communist Adolph Library of Congress Subject Headings: Heartfield, John, 1891-1968 People Photographers -- Germany Photomontage Political posters LII Database Information: Record 21841 created by Maria Brandt on 06/13/2006 Last modification on 06/13/2006 Published: 06/15/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21841