| Description |
xvii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: representing the new woman -- Ch. 1. The Berlin Dada photomontages -- Ch. 2. Mass media, modernism, and the avant-garde -- Ch. 3. Hannah Höch's mass media scrapbook: utopias of the twenties -- Ch. 4. Portraits, dancers, and coquettes: the modern woman in Höch's photomontages, 1923-35 -- Ch. 5. From an ethnographic museum -- Ch. 6. Androgyny and spectatorship -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Appendix: selected writings by Hannah Höch. A glance over my life. The painter. A few words on photomontage |
| Summary |
This book on Hannah Hoch, explores the social construction of femininity in the mass media culture of Weimar Germany by focusing on the arresting photomontages of this Berlin Dada artist |
| Analysis |
Germany |
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Visual arts |
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Germany |
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Visual arts |
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Germany |
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Visual arts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and index |
| Subject |
Höch, Hannah, 1889-1978.
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Dadaism -- Germany.
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Photographers -- Germany.
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Photography of women.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Photography.
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Photomontage -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Photomontage -- Germany -- 20th century.
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Sex role in art.
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Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Germany -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Höch, Hannah, 1889-1978.
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Höch, Hannah, 1889-1978.
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| LC no. |
92014332 |
| ISBN |
0300047665 alkaline paper |
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0300061641 |
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9780300047660 alkaline paper |
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9780300061642 |
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