Elliott Earls updates

Some updates from the studio of Elliott Earls, artist-in-residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art's 2D Design Department.



Elliott Earles: "On thursday evening I gave a lecture at The Wolfsonian Museum as part of their exhibition on the work of John Heartfield. My lecture used the work of Heartfield as a kind of foil against which we can begin to understand a more powerful role for the contemporary graphic designer. In the lecture I primarily used the work of Heartfield as a way of attempting to place my own work within an historical context and to provide it a cohesive conceptual framework. To radically simplify the lecture, initially I pit John Heartfield against Paul Rand1 (Lord Vader) and discuss the goals of the post world war one avant-garde. In the lecture, I frame my own work in terms of the spirit of oppositional cultural practice exemplified by Heartfield – and by extension El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko et al.
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From Bull and Wounded Horse.