Knife By Hannah Höch

growth of photography, cinema, and mass media; and two world wars. However, she proved herself as a pioneer of photomontage and as a feminist icon. Hannah Höch focuses her artwork on the political chaos of World War I, as shown in Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch. (Fig. 1) About Hannah Höch: Hannah Höch started her training in 1912 at the School of Applied Arts, in Berlin-Charlottenburg where she studied glass design; until the interruption of World

Though Hannah Höch may be a jack-of-all-trades in the art realm – having dabbled in painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, pattern making, and photography - she certainly is a master of collage. A German artist of the 20th century, Höch is primarily known for her turbulent romantic relationship with Czech artist Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of the Berlin Dada movement. Hausmann credited himself and Höch as the inventors of photomontage. Höch uses her collages to comment and critique the

actions of society. The war would not stand if the flaws of society had not permitted it to get that far. These individuals saw the need to reflect the misery of a generation in their art. Focusing on the rise and fall of an art form through the lens of Hannah Höch’s artwork and activism, allows one to see the intricacies of art, technology, feminism, and sexuality come together, and the effects that a totalitarian society has on personal expression. Concerned with the staggering losses that came with World

make fun of cultural values, social, and political views. My favorite artist of this movement are Hannah Hoch, Max Emst, and Kurt Schwitters, i choose to do these three artists because their work really

figures—Hannah Hoch and James Rosenquist--connected. Hoch once worked for a women's magazine of the huge Ullstein Press while Rosenquist once earned his living as a billboard painter at Artkraft-Strauss. They had been working within

was consisting of artist who would reject the aestheticism, reason, and logic of the modern capitalist society. The first Grand Opening for Dada exhibitions was an international Dada fair held in Berlin on June 5, 1920. All three of these artist, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, and Theo van Doesburg, have influenced me in their own ways. They all have an amazing background, and yes they each went through some trouble in their own life, but everyone does at some point. Other then the trouble in their lives

The artist gathered at a café called Cabaret Voltaire, conversing about the war and art before expressing their alternative vision of the world. Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Hannah Hoch, and Hugo Ball were some of the major dada artist. Rumors say the artist’s used a knife to stab a dictionary and hence the name DADA, French for hobby horse or just baby talk, was born. (what was dada and why it matters, 2015) Dadaists opposed what they considered unethical, by using alternative

I feel like DADA and dadaism have a showcase that factors a lot in their work and it's something I can learn more about by studying it, I find that Hannah Hoch work is quite interesting, I appreciate her way of using collage

World War One, also known as the Great War, broke out across the world in August of 1914. European leaders expected it to be a short war, assuring their citizens that a resolution would occur before the start of the New Year (Stokstad). Those leaders could not have been any more wrong, because World War One lasted until November 11, 1918. The war goes down as one of the most destructive wars in all of history. An estimated ten million people lost their lives due to war efforts such as trench warfare

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DADA AND PUNK It is difficult to estimate when people began to create different theories, movements and ideologies with regards to what is positive and negative in the world that we live in. A part and parcel of human nature has always been an individual desire to be a part of the perfect world which unfortunately is mainly stimulated by individuals in power. Therefore this bore a disagreement and critique among minorities and has been exploding over the centuries in different