HANNAH HOECH: ASSEMBLED WORLDS (SCHEIDEGGER) (PB)

Hannah Hoch (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 Great War and an intense consumer culture, and reassembled it in revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Hoch kept to her artistic means and her poetic-radical imagination, shimmering between social observation and dream world. Scissors and glue were the weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a co-inventor.