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By Helen Adkins: “Erwin Blumenfeld – I WAS NOTHING BUT A BERLINER. DADA Montages 1916-1933”. English Version. Berlin / Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz for Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, 2008 and 2009. Heavy 4to hardcover with dustjacket. 223 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Very good, well preserved and clean copy
First edition -Includes THE EARTH, A DISC, ONTO WHICH “LIFE” IS UNREMITTINGLY MOUNTED Janos Frecot — ERWIN BLUMENFELD-A BIOGRAPHY IN PICTURES — MONTAGES-DEFINITION, TECHNIQUE, AND COMPOSITION The Diversity of the Early Period — Montages and Cut-and-Paste Pictures — “Nomina sunt omina” — Choice of Materials — Work with Brush and Scissors — Herwarth Walden and Carel van Lier — Old Masters and Stone Effigies – Dada Heroes — Boxing — City Fantasies — False Heroes — PHOTOGRAPHER BLUMENFELD Hybrid Works — The Art of Photography — Manipulations for Color Prints.
