The extensive range of posters, collages, maquettes, postcards, magazines, and books featured in this exhibition catalog attests to the enormous influence of photomontage in politics, social
protest, and advertising, while also demonstrating the popularity of the technique among avant-garde artists during these two decades. Essays in this visually rich publication examine
contemporary texts that the practice of photomontage inspired, and explore those qualities of photomontage that led to what was arguably the most important exhibition devoted to this artistic
technique at the Kunstgewerbemuseum�in Berlin in 1931. The present volume includes a facsimile reproduction and translation of the catalog published on the occasion of that exhibition. In
addition to a brief chronology, the interested reader will also find a selection of text - some scarcely familiar today - by authors of various nationalities that sheds further light on the
practice. Produced to accompany the exhibition in Spain and available in North America for the first time, this entirely English-language publication offers a fascinating overview of the birth
of the photomontage process specifically in Germany and the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
