作为20世纪早期前卫学者,尤其是关于魏玛共和国的德国艺术,约翰·哈特菲尔德体现了典型的艺术家、政治活动家,举起反抗的声音反对恐怖与日益压制性政权的不公正现象。他运用最新发明的媒介——蒙太奇照片作为他的致命武器,通过熟练地操纵冲突的图片,以便达到强大的文字解说相结合的合成图像,成为一个强有力的政治声明。 As an early avant-garde of the early twentieth century, and especially about German art in the Weimar Republic, John Hatfield embodies the injustices typical of artists, political activists, and voices of resistance against terror and increasingly repressive regimes. Using a newly invented medium, the montage of photographs as his lethal weapon, he becomes a powerful political statement by skilfully manipulating conflicting images in order to achieve a composite image of powerful textual commentary.