Author: Wolf, Erika and Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
Title: Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage As a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
Description: Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. Hardcover. Red and off-white illustrated DJ with white, red and black lettering; red boards with stamped lettering; 368 pp.; richly illustrated. "The leading Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras and educating his public about Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, and Nicaragua as well. Zhitomirsky favored the grotesque and the eye-catching. His villainous menagerie included Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels as a distorted simian and an airborne scorpion outfitted with an Uncle Sam hat. In this comprehensive, image-driven account of Zhitomirsky's long career, Erika Wolf explores his connections to and long friendship with the German artist John Heartfield, whose work inspired his own. Wolf also examines more than 100 of Zhitomirsky's photomontages and translates excerpts from his one published book, The Art of Political Photomontage: Advice for the Artist (1983). In an era when satirical photomontage thrives on the Internet and propaganda has reasserted itself in America and Russia alike, this study of a once-prominent yet internationally undiscovered artist is more than timely" -- DJ. VG (Ex art library with sticker on the spine and front of DJ and to rear endpaper; DJ is lightly edgeworn with some scuffing/smudging; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: Russian Artists, Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, Propaganda, Photomontage ; Zhitomirsky, Aleksandr ; ;


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