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Summary: A great book: art and biography of Hoch
Review: Hannah Hoch was a little-known DaDa artist from Germany, whose photomontages were revolutionary in their time. This book has both color plates of her best works (my favorite is "The Beautiful Girl," a montage with biting social commentary about the treatment of women at the time), along with photos and scraps from her own personal collection.I personally recommend this book over other books about her, because this book gives a clearer picture of Hannah Hoch the person, rather than simply trying to interprest her life through her art, as many other books do. This book is the only comprehensive look at her life, clearly focusing on her motivations, about being a Lesbian woman in Germany pre-WWI, and her relationships with fellow DaDa artists and writers. I believe that this book is an excellent introduction as well to the DaDa art movement of the early 1900's in Europe. The "punk rock" of the art world, DaDa was revolutionary in changing our view of the world and ourselves, and paved the way for larger art movements such as Pop Art. This text focuses more on the people of DaDa, at the human side of art, than most other books on this subject do. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the art of pre-WWI Eurpoe, and the DaDa-ists.
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: Hannah Hoch was a little-known DaDa artist from Germany, whose photomontages were revolutionary in their time. This book has both color plates of her best works (my favorite is "The Beautiful Girl," a montage with biting social commentary about the treatment of women at the time), along with photos and scraps from her own personal collection. I personally recommend this book over other books about her, because this book gives a clearer picture of Hannah Hoch the person, rather than simply trying to interprest her life through her art, as many other books do. This book is the only comprehensive look at her life, clearly focusing on her motivations, about being a Lesbian woman in Germany pre-WWI, and her relationships with fellow DaDa artists and writers. I believe that this book is an excellent introduction as well to the DaDa art movement of the early 1900's in Europe. The "punk rock" of the art world, DaDa was revolutionary in changing our view of the world and ourselves, and paved the way for larger art movements such as Pop Art. This text focuses more on the people of DaDa, at the human side of art, than most other books on this subject do. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the art of pre-WWI Eurpoe, and the DaDa-ists.
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Summary: Hannah Hoch, Artist
Review: I admit I don't know much about art, that's why I read this book. I learned a lot about the Dada movement and also about Ms. Hoch. I'm still not sure if she is much of an artist, but I know she makes a damn fine sandwich.
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: This is a wonderful resource for information on Hannah Hoch, and Berlin dada. Great account of Hannah's life,
and a complete collection of her work.
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