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»Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Medien« - so lautet eine Feststellung Niklas Luhmanns. In der Tat werden unsere Wahrnehmung und unser Wissen von den wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Massenmedien strukturiert. Vera Chiquets Studie zu den zwischen 1930 und 1938 entstandenen Fotomontagen des deutschen Künstlers John Heartfield (1891-1968) macht den Stellenwert deutlich, den die damals technisch gerade erst möglich gewordene fotografische Manipulation in den Illustrierten Zeitungen - das zentrale Leitmedium in der Zeit der Machtergreifung durch Hitler - hatte. Sie zieht hinsichtlich des thematischen Potpourris und des Schwerpunktes auf Fotografie Vergleiche mit heutigen elektronischen Informationsportalen und zeigt, dass Fake News kein Phänomen ausschließlich des 21. Jahrhunderts sind. »Eine überaus relevante Studie, die nicht nur interessante Interpretationen der Fotomontagen von Heartfield liefert, sondern zusätzlich die damalige politische, journalistische und künstlerische Situation in Deutschland zwischen 1930 und 1938 reflektiert und einordnet.« Christian Schicha, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2019) »Eine besondere Stärke der vorliegenden Arbeit ist Chiquets Auseinandersetzung mit Heartfields Inszenierungsagenda und deren didaktischer Grundüberzeugung, wie die Rezipienten seiner Fotomontagen über das unterhaltende Format politisch mobilisiert werden könnten.« Valentin Johannes Hemberger, H-Soz-u-Kult, 25.07.2019 O-Ton: »Wir benötigen solche künstlerischen Interventionen« - Vera Chiquet im Interview bei L.I.S.A Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung am 17.01.2019. Besprochen in: Optische Fenomenen, 375/9 (2018), Jan Broeders

John Heartfield; Fotomontage; Adolf Hitler; Weimarer Republik; Massenmedien; Illustrierte Medien; Fotografie; Medien; Kunst; Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Medienästhetik; Popkultur; Medienwissenschaft; Photomontage; Weimar Republic; Mass Media; Photography; Media; Art; Art History of the 20th Century; Media Aesthetics; Popular Culture; Media Studies; --- Adolf Hitler. --- Art History of the 20th Century. --- Art. --- Mass Media. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Photography. --- Photomontage. --- Popular Culture. --- Weimar Republic.

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The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris.Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are.

Surrealism --- Prague (Czech Republic) --- Civilization --- 1939 New York World's Fair. --- 20th-century art. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Adolf. --- Agnes Smedley. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Art Nouveau. --- Baroque architecture. --- Berliner Tageblatt. --- Bertolt Brecht. --- Between Hitler and Stalin. --- Buchenwald concentration camp. --- Caracas. --- Cubism. --- Czech Cubism. --- Czech Dream. --- Czech art. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Czechs. --- Dada. --- Degenerate Art Exhibition. --- Degenerate art. --- Ernst May. --- Felix Dzerzhinsky. --- Feuilleton. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- François Rabelais. --- George Grosz. --- Georges Bataille. --- Georges-Eugène Haussmann. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gottfried Benn. --- Guillaume Apollinaire. --- Harper's Bazaar. --- Harpo Marx. --- Haussmann's renovation of Paris. --- Holocaust denial. --- Hussite Wars. --- Hussites. --- Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire). --- Jan Hus. --- John Heartfield. --- Josef Sudek. --- Julietta. --- Karel Teige. --- Karl August Wittfogel. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Karlovy Vary. --- Kindertransport. --- Kingdom of Bohemia. --- Kurt Schwitters. --- Le Corbusier. --- Le Monde. --- Leonora Carrington. --- Louis Aragon. --- Manifesto of Futurism. --- Marcel Breuer. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mark Rothko. --- Marquis de Sade. --- Max Beckmann. --- Max Brod. --- Max Ernst. --- Milan Kundera. --- Modern Rome. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Moscow Trials. --- Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. --- Nadja (novel). --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Necromancy. --- Neo-impressionism. --- Neville Chamberlain. --- Nuremberg Rally. --- Osip Mandelstam. --- Oskar Kokoschka. --- Otto Dix. --- Politique. --- Prague Hotel. --- Prague Spring. --- Prague. --- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. --- Romanticism. --- Surrealism. --- The Age of Extremes. --- The Myth of the Twentieth Century. --- The Postmodern Condition. --- Theatre of the Absurd. --- Thirty Years' War. --- Tosca. --- Tristan Tzara. --- Twenty Years After. --- Vsevolod Meyerhold. --- Wannsee Conference. --- Wassily Kandinsky. --- Zwinger (Dresden). --- Zygmunt Bauman.