Photomontage Today. Peter Kennard - ACE125.2

"For John Heartfield 1891-1968." Film of Heartfield with his photomontage Adolf the Superman: Eats Gold and Spouts Junk / Adolf der Übermensch – Schluckt Gold und redet Blech (1932). Commentary says this programme will look at photomontage for political use, concentrating on the work of Peter Kennard, whose images cover a wide range of issues connecting art and politics. Photograph of fist holding broken missile. Peter Kennard says he prefers to use photographs which "refer more back to reality" than paint which "refers back to art", and that he started in 1968, using images coming out of the Vietnam war to show "what was behind those events". He says that the established art world considers overtly political work to be propaganda and not art. Photomontage can show the conflicts that go on beneath images. Examples.