BOOK ART FOR
BOOK COVERS
JOHN HEARTFIELD
BOOK DUST JACKETS
Heartfield Book Art 1949 – 1968 Graphic Design History
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John Heartfield Book Art – Dust Jackets: 1949 – 1968
A growing portfolio compilation of John Heartfield’s (Helmut Herzfeld) art for book covers. Many were published by Malik-Verlag, the publishing house that was a joint venture of John and his brother, Wieland Herzfelde (Wieland Herzfeld). If you would like to add a book to this portfolio, please WRITE TO THE CURATOR.
Einband für 100 Jahre "Kapital" Lenin Poem Volksbühne Brecht Stücke XII [ Plays XII ] Winterschlacht Travels In Ethiopia
1967 Catalog
Katalog des Antiquariats Pinkus (Zürich)
1966 Majakowski, Vladimir
1959 Brecht, Bertolt
1954 Becher, Johannes R.
1949 Buxton, David
JOHN HEARTFIELD BOOK ART : GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR BOOK COVERS
From 1912 until shortly before his death in 1968, John Heartfield graphic design ( photomontage or collage ) for book covers pushed the envelope of publishing graphic design.
The German Dada artist revolutionized typography. Heartfield made the typography a visual element of the graphic design.
Heartfield book covers were among the very first to use the book dust jacket to tell a story that moved from the front cover to the back cover.
His graphic designs that grace the interior of his collaboration with the Kurt Tucholsky on Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles. Those photo montages helped make Tucholsky’s satiric book an instant classic of German literature.
It’s well documented that Malik-Verlag publishing customers often bought books simply because they wanted to own the Heartfield book jacket covers. Reading the book was an option.