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Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted 'to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it' - Flashbak Hannah Hock, Hannah Hoch Collage, Dada Art Movement, John Heartfield, Dada Artists, Hannah Hoch, Dada Collage, Kurt Schwitters, Barbara Kruger

Radical movements often espouse the most conservative of values. Dada claimed it was radical, anti-bourgeoise, and anti-capitalist in its aesthetics. But two of its key members (George Grosz and John Heartfield) refused to include any women (or their work) in the movement. Women, they said, were there to make the sandwiches, pour the beer, and … Continue reading "Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’"

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'Self-portrait' by German Dada artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978). Collage. via on art etc.: John Heartfield, Photomontage Collage, Kunst Collages, Dada Artists, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Dada Collage, Dada Movement, Tristan Tzara

I can't be making collages and ignore Hannah Höch's influence. She was one of the first artist's to embrace the "new medium" and her work has had an impact on generations to come. I suppose she's best known for her iconic Dadaist collage Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic from 1919, but I'm particularly drawn to these...

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Hannah Hock, Hannah Hoch Collage, Dada Art Movement, Dadaism Art, Raoul Hausmann, Dada Artists, Hannah Hoch, Dada Collage, Dada Movement

In Hannah Hoch’s collage wonderland anything is possible; men’s faces sprout wings and chase primeval monsters, broken artefacts assemble into beasts and women’s bodies are cut apart and left to float in space. She wrote: “…there are no limits to the materials available for pictorial collages – above all they can be found in photography,...

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