ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Jenny Farrell pays tribute to JOHN HEARTFIELD, the creator of political photomontage, who died 50 years ago today
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
A FEARLESS communist and activist who lived through two world wars, John Heartfield was born in Berlin in 1891.
Along with his brother and two sisters he was abandoned by his parents at the age of eight and went with his siblings to live with relatives. After finishing school, the brothers moved first to Wiesbaden and from there to Munich where Heartfield studied art.
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