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Heartfield: One Man’s War, Four Corners London
Timely exhibition of stunning images from the anti-nazi founder of photomontage
Millions back me
[John Heartfield]
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RECENTLY unearthed in their original crumbling box in the archives of the Liverpool John Moores University library, the set of anti-nazi photomontage posters by John Heartfield, dating from the 1930s, are a rare and timely find.
Scathingly satirical artworks against war and fascism, they go on show from November 1 at Four Corners in London’s East End in a period when the threat of the far right in Britain, Europe and the US is greater than it has been for generations.
A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield was a commited communist who during the period of Hitler’s rise invented the techniques of photomontage to produce devastating poster work.
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