Now available in paperback this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her
use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty.
World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period Hannah Höch was a pioneer in many aspects
both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous
form of art that deconstructed sound language and images to re-assemble them into new objects
texts and meanings. A determined believer in women's rights Höch questioned conventional
concepts of partnership beauty and the making of art her work presenting acute critiques of
racial and social stereotypes particularly that of her native Germany. Focusing on Höch's
collages this book examines the artist's career from the 1920s to the 1970s charting her
oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media through to her later compositions
of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style which was both
humorous and often moving. Included are essays that examine themes such as the concept of the
»New Woman« and the legacy of German colonialism. Featuring international scholarship on a
groundbreaking artist this volume brings together important source texts and reference
material which were first translated into English for the original edition of this book.
