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Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany12-minute video
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie...
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
1919
Frau and Saturn
1922
Thanks Heather. I have two of her books and neither has any of these.
She is one of my four favorite 20th c. artists. Holly Roberts, francesco Clemente and Giorigio de Chirico being the round up.
I remembered you had mentioned her several times in the past in different threads. I actually thought specifically of you when I posted this!
Again, thanx. I bought her most recent anthology back in 2014. I was pleasantly surprised that such a major book would cost only 50$ I believe Pheadon published it. They're great for art books.
Did you buy it in the US? Or in Mexico?
Heather wrote: "Did you buy it in the US? Or in Mexico?"New York City. Manhattan to be more precise. I wish I could remember the name of the bookstore. It was phenomenal. They had a huge section on theater arts. Not a very big store. perhaps sixth avenue in the 20's but it was 5 years ago and the Big Apple is a maze.
I had been to so many other bookstores in
nyc on that trip and had not seen her book. Currently I am trying to find a monograph on Kurt Schwitters and there is nothing monumental currently available and the older books go for 300 bucks and above.
Art books are hardly best sellers and publishers often can't gauge how well they would sell.Here in Mexico there was an artist, Adolfe Best Maugard who revolutionized art education in the early 20's. There is hardly any text about him anywhere, and much of what he did here has been ascribed to the efforts of his two bosses, Dr. Atl and Vasconcelos in the federal education department after the Mexican Revolution*1910-1921. finally the federal government published a limited edition book on his life, art and teaching back in 2016. They printed 1200 copies of the book. It went out of print in less than a year. I came across it in December of 2017 at a library inOaxaca and immediately sought to buy it. I checked with Art Libris, Abebooks, Ebay, you name it. I emailed a friend who has an extensive mexican contemporary art book library. No such luck finally two months ago i found a used copy from Abebooks. Whew!!! What an effort for only a single book. But worth it!!!!!!!
Wow! You did a lot for that book! I’m glad you finally got it, what a treasure!
Hannah Höch
Phonetic Spelling: HAHN-ah HUHR-sh
1889–1978
style: Dada; Surrealism
Hannah Höch documented Weimar Germany’s political and social turmoil through paintings, drawings, prints, and, most notably, photomontages.
Höch was born in Gotha, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1912 to study calligraphy, embroidery, wallpaper design, and graphic arts. With Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz, and others, Höch founded Berlin Dada. This international avant-garde movement was reacting to the horrors of World War I and brazenly rejected traditional art forms.
She and Hausmann, who had a turbulent love affair, are often credited with “inventing” photomontage. Using camera-made images, Höch and other Dadaists pieced together works with satirical and ironic messages about the chaotic sociopolitical state in Germany.
Höch showed nine works at the infamous First International Dada Fair in 1920, including her iconic Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-1920.
The Dadaists were self-proclaimed radical thinkers who championed women’s rights. But Höch, the only female Berlin Dadaist, was marginalized for her independent spirit, masculine dress, and bisexuality. Her photomontages often confronted gender issues, championing the “New Woman” who was empowered by the vote, sexually emancipated, and financially liberated.
In 1922, Höch ended her relationship with Hausmann and Berlin Dada. She continued to create and exhibit works until the mid-1930s when the Nazi regime demanded the end of the “degenerate” Dada movement. Her compatriots fled the country, but Höch isolated herself in a secluded area of north-west Berlin. She continued to produce artwork until the end of her life.
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