John Heartfield
Recent articles about John Heartfield
Scissor action
Issue 91, Spring 2016
John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (David King and Ernst…
Weimar volumes
Issue 91, Spring 2016
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars;…
Violently opposed to war
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd…
Word art
Issue 11, Winter 1993
In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet…
Political imagery re-examined
Issue 58, Winter 2005
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar…
Recent blog posts by John Heartfield
Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven
27 October 2014
Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice
Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work of Jan van Toorn’, now at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands until 18 Jan 2015, offers a critical challenge to that tradition.