Helmut Herbst
Deutschland Dada & John Heartfield, Fotomonteur & Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968
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Add rightsFormat 2 x DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1969-1980
Language(s) English, German
Artist(s) Helmut Herbst
Subtitles French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian
Booklet 20 pages (French, English, German)
Running time 429 min
Films
DEUTSCHLAND DADA (1969) 63'
JOHN HEARTFIELD, FOTOMONTEUR (1976) 63'
GESPRÄCHE MIT RAOUL HAUSMANN (1968) 111' (audio)
GESPRÄCHE MIT RICHARD HUELSENBECK (1968) 37' (audio)
HAPPENING, KUNST, PROTEST 1968 (1981) 75'
GESPRÄCH MIT JOSEPH BEUYS (1980) 8' (audio)
GESPRÄCH MIT BAZON BROCK (1980) 19' (audio)
GESPRÄCH MIT ALLAN KAPROW (1980) 10' (audio)
GESPRÄCH MIT WOLF VOSTELL (1980) 21' (audio)
GESPRÄCH MIT AL HANSEN (1980) 22' (audio)
Description
Connected by their theme and form, these three documentaries — Germany Dada (1969), John Heartfield: Photomontage Artist (1977) and 1968: Art, Protest, Happening (1981) — can be considered a trilogy on the history of twentieth-century art. Art historians are drawn to those rare moments in German history when radical aesthetics and radical politics briefly aligned. This beautiful alliance was subsequently shattered by the movement of authoritarian political sects on one side, and by the reaction of the authoritarian establishment combined with the voracity of the art market on the other. (Helmut Herbst)
This 2-DVD box set also includes previously unreleased audio recordings of interviews with artists such as Richard Huelsenbeck, Raoul Hausmann, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow and Al Hansen.