Hannah Hoch, Dada Dance, 1922 Worked in the publishing industry, so she was able to catalogue images to use   However, she was not accepted into the Dada group; the German Dada movement didn’t want any females displaying art in their first exhibition. Hoch, in protest, created a performance peace that mocked a man breaking down because his wife asked him to do the dishes  Criticizes the ridiculously effected nature of European fashion, women’s fashion specifically; the figure on the left is an Africian figure, used as a foil to the artificial nature of European fashion.

Hannah Hoch, Dada Dance, 1922

  • Worked in the publishing industry, so she was able to catalogue images to use  
  • However, she was not accepted into the Dada group; the German Dada movement didn’t want any females displaying art in their first exhibition. Hoch, in protest, created a performance peace that mocked a man breaking down because his wife asked him to do the dishes 
  • Criticizes the ridiculously effected nature of European fashion, women’s fashion specifically; the figure on the left is an Africian figure, used as a foil to the artificial nature of European fashion.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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