Hannah Höch Book order

Das Lebensbild entstand 1973 und ist die letzte umfangreiche Fotocollage der Künstlerin Hannah Höch. Diese visuelle Autobiografie ist die größte Collage, die sie je geschaffen hat. In ihr gibt Höch einen seltenen Einblick in ihr Schaffen und ihre Person. Ironisch und poetisch kommentiert sie die zentralen politischen, gesellschaftlichen und künstlerischen Ereignisse in ihrem Leben. Hannah Höch legte selber 38 Bildausschnitte fest. Diese Bildausschnitte werden von begleitenden Texten und zahlreichen Zitaten ergänzt.

For the first time, Hannah Höch’s Picture Book [Bilderbuch] from 1945 is now being made available. The Picture Book is not only a wonderful book for children, but an important cultural and historic document, as it was created by Hannah Höch, the most important female artist of the Modernist period in Germany. It is designed through the Dadaistic principle of photomontage which Höch developed, together with Raoul Hausmann, in the early years of the 20th century. Awarded one of the „Most Beautiful German Books 2010“ The book presents the fantastic adventures of Runfast, Dumblet and Her Egg, Schnifti and Meyer 1, mythical creatures which seem like a dream in a zoological garden, surrounded by fairy tale flowers and plants. With a text by Gunda Luyken. Appendix includes original German Rhymes by Höch.

A pioneer in the medium of photomontage, Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was the sole female member of the Berlin Dada movement and continued to produce innovative works well into the 1970s. In the decade and a half since her death, a new generation of scholars has focused its attention on her elegant dissection of the representation of women in the mass media during the Weimar era. Here, in the first comprehensive survey of her work by an American museum, authors Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner survey the full scope of Hoch's half-century of experimentation in photomontage - from her politically charged early works and intimate psychological portraits of the Weimar era to her later forays into surrealism and abstraction. This beautifully designed catalogue presents more than l00 color plates and offers new insights into the life and career of this extraordinary artist.