John Heartfield created some of the most memorable propaganda images of the twentieth century. With more than two hundred political photomontages he shone a fierce spotlight on the evils of the Nazi regime that had taken over his homeland. His life and work were rooted in a profound and simple belief in the nobility of the working class, in their hopes and aspirations. He worked to inform and educate them, to try to make them wise to the evils of national and international fascism, of military aggression, of capitalism wherever he saw it.
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Thus his work covered the widest possible spectrum. In addition to political caricatures, he designed hundreds of books and book jackets, pamphlets, newspapers, stage sets and projections. He gave lectures and mounted exhibitions. He even tried his hand at film making. It was a career that continued even after exile in England throughout Second World War.
His life was itself a political montage and this book sets itself to show for the first time the complete picture of an honest man's political life in art.
