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Wer Bürgerblätter liest wird blind und taub / Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf
Poster: John Heartfield, Wer Bürgerblätter liest wird blind und taub / Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf – Weg mit den Verdummungsbandagen! / Away with the stultifying bandages! (1930). Photomontage. Originally published in Arbeiter llustrierte Zeitung, Jg. 9, No. 6. 38 x 27.5 cm. Courtesy of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung.
Title Wer Bürgerblätter liest wird blind und taub / Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf Weg mit den Verdummungsbandagen! / Away with the stultifying bandages! Date 1930 Type Printed poster/flyer
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Designers John Heartfield
Dimensions 38 x 27.5 cm Volume In 'Arbeiter llustrierte Zeitung', Jg. 9, No. 6

b.1891, Berlin; d.1968, East Berlin

This special collections item was loaned to the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, December 12, 2009–February 28, 2010. It is indexed here as part of Smith and Van Wyk’s revisiting of the Dada South? Archive of materials at A4 Arts Foundation.

Courtesy of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstammlung.

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