Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen. Ästhetik und Politik bei Günther Anders und John Heartfield

The paper aims to investigate the lecture given by Günther Anders of John Heartfield’s peculiar art of expressionistic montage, in 1938, focusing the connections between aesthetics and politics. The role of the photomontage is, following this text, to put on the surface the reality which is hired under the cover. In this sense, so Anders, Heartfield’s photomontage is a falsification, aimed to reveal the truth. It does not mean a hoax, in order to trick, but rather a way to show the real connections between the things of the world