The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch

Rating:
Summary: great book about a great artist
Review: Hoch was a remarkably original artist. She basically (with a few other artist) invented magazine collage. So many of the motifs she established (big heads on little bodies, for example) seem so common in advertising and pop culture that is is hard to believe that they haven't always existed. In Hoch's images, you see Cubist space married to political content and satire. You see the beginnings of image appropriation which is now rampant in contemporary art. This book is expecially good in that it shows you (and how did they find them???) the original sources for most of her images, It provides an excellent look at Hoch's visual thought process.

Rating:
Summary: great book about a great artist
Review: Hoch was a remarkably original artist. She basically (with a few other artist) invented magazine collage. So many of the motifs she established (big heads on little bodies, for example) seem so common in advertising and pop culture that is is hard to believe that they haven't always existed. In Hoch's images, you see Cubist space married to political content and satire. You see the beginnings of image appropriation which is now rampant in contemporary art. This book is expecially good in that it shows you (and how did they find them???) the original sources for most of her images, It provides an excellent look at Hoch's visual thought process.