Tate Modern Political Art – John Heartfield

The David King Exhibit

“John Heartfield, Laughter Is A Devastating Weapon” (David King and Ernst Volland) provides the rare opportunity to view John Heartfield’s Tate Modern political art from David King’s private collection. Heartfield’s original artwork is juxtaposed with its corresponding AIZ cover. Here is a sampling of the brilliant art that supported Heartfield’s messages. Heartfield accomplished exquisite detail and nuance in his political art with scissors and paste. Part of Heartfield’s brilliance was his understanding of how his originals would translate into mass produced AIZ covers. He relentlessly drove the rotogravure masters, who engraved the cylinders used to print the AIZ covers, to remain true to his vision. Fortunately, some of Heartfield’s original art survives.
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DAVID KING
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john heartfield art in the tate modern london collection

First published in 2015
by order of the Tate Trustees
by Tate Publishing, a division of
Tate Enterprises Ltd,
Millbank, London SW1P4RG
www.tate.org.uk/publishing
© David King 2015
www.davidkingcollection.com
All John Heartfield’s works are
© The Heartfield Community
of Heirs/VG Bild Kunst,
Bonn and DACS,
London 2015

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Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's The Executioner Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's The Executioner
Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's The Middle Ages   Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's The Middle Ages
Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's Bolshevik Swamp   Tate Modern Political Art of John Heartfield's Bolshevik Swamp