The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

Fig..John Heartfield,Die Rote Fahne,May,cover,Deutsches Historisches Museum. CopyrightThe HeartfieldCommunity of He ...

influential 1929Film undFotoexhibition in Stuttgart openedwith an entire sec- tion devoted to Heartfieldthat displayedFive Finge ...

description of Heartfield’sphotographic practice as“an emotionalrather than a rational means of communication.”⁹Establishinghis ...

ment,had appropriated the hand–raised or extended, offered or withheld–as apowerful symbolofpolitical unity and strength. AsBarb ...

flect on the crisis of modern subjectivity.Meanwhile, in countless cigarette ads, well-groomed women’shandsbecame emblems of the ...

gans.His mode of address always involves imperatives, and his exhortations al- ways refer to struggle and confrontation.Forinsta ...

even Durus declared montagea“Marxist method of artistic creation”ideallysuit- ed for uncovering the contradictions in social rea ...

film theory that in her view best captures the integrative,illusionisttendencies in Heartfield’swork.²¹The scholarship on Heartf ...

terpellative effects. Reevaluated in that way, the corresponding artistictechni- ques represents aboveall apolitically motivated ...

five fingersyouseize the enemy”); and thesubscriptio,which further clarifies the relationship betweeninscriptioandpicture(“Vote ...

By the early1930s, allegory once again offered itself as the aesthetic modal- ity best suited for reconcilingsocial reality and ...

and the impact,asmeasured by the sparks, is profoundlyphysical. The accom- panyingtext establishesadirect link between the black ...

Brecht.Inthe largercontext of this book, his involvement withKuhleWampe, that classic of leftist filmmaking from the lateWeimary ...

Chapter 18 KuhleWampeand “Those Who Don’tLikeIt” Brecht:Both Tretyakov andIagreed–in oppositiontothe bourgeois aestheticof“enter ...

very terms of politicallyengaged art,includingthe relationship between aesthet- ic emotions and political emotions. Operativity ...

vite proletarian identifications–and do so through from the point of view of a woman. Fig..Kuhle Wampe,DVD capture. Male work ...

Fig..Kuhle Wampe,DVD capture. The Bönikefamily: mother and son. Fig..Kuhle Wampe,DVD capture. The Bö- nikefamily: father a ...

ing theWeimar Republic. Moreover,itdepended on the extensive exchanges that allowed leftist artists and writers to look for new ...

and attire,Anni has alsolittle in common with her brother,the kind of slender, sensitiveyoung man often depicted inWeimar films ...

This description involves nothing less thanadefinitionofgestus in music, that is, an attitude of resistancethatrequiresaparticul ...