Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds

Hannah H ch (1889-1978) moved between differing worlds: as an editorial assistant with a major Berlin-based magazine publisher, and as the only woman who could hold her own in the German capital's vibrant Dada scene of the 1920s. Her works dissected a world marked by the catastrophe of the Great War and an intense consumer culture, and reassembled it in revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Scissors and glue were the weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a coinventor.
Cutting and montage also shaped film, still a new medium in the 1920s, which strongly influenced H ch's art: she understood her assembled pictures as static films. This richly illustrated and expertly annotated book explores comprehensively for the first time H ch's life-long fascination with film and the visual culture of the modern industrial age. Covering her entire career, It demonstrates how montage evolved in a field of tension between artistic experimentation, commercial exploitation, and political appropriation. A text on photomontage by H ch, written in 1948, and a text-collage on the history of montage, in which major protagonists of Modernism and Avant-garde have their say, round out this volume.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039421727
• ISBN13: 9783039421725
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"