Hannah Hoch: Album, Limited Edition

By Gunda Luyken

An important representative of the Berlin Dada movement, Hannah H ch (1889-1978) was a dedicated collagist, noting in her appointment calendar for 1939 that she had been "busy for days going through magazines and cutting things out." The sheer abundance of H ch's collection of visual material is suggested by an album that was presumably compiled in 1933, a singular work that poses a number of fascinating questions. Was it used as a collection of motifs for collages and photomontages? Was it a kind of modern sketchbook? Could it have been a first step toward conceptual art? The album, which contains a remarkable number of female numes, is comprised of 114 pages--two issues of the journal Die Dame were used as backing pages--and combines more than 400 photographic images of nature, technology, sports, dance, the new woman, film and ethnology, all cut out and mounted by the artist. This astonishing Album, only a few pages of which had been published before, was presented for the first time in its entirety as a reproduction of near-facsimile quality in 2004. Now it is available as a deluxe special edition, presented in the original format and accompanied by a booklet of texts in a slipcase.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775714286
• ISBN13: 9783775714280
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 132 Pages
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 15.3"