Art Book – Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds (2023)

Video (6:41): Marianna from Spazio Projects bookshop reads from the art book titled ‘Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds’, edited by Stella Rollig, Martin Waldmeier and Nina Zimmer, published by Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern), Belvedere (Vienna) and Scheidegger & Spiess (2023).

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Hannah Höch – Assembled Worlds
Author: ed. Stella Rollig, Martin Waldmeier, Nina Zimmer; Kristin Makholm, Martin Waldmeier
Publishing Year: 2023
Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Format: 17 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-3-03942-172-5

Scheidegger & Spiess write about the book: Hannah Höch (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. Höch broke with the traditions of representation and vision. Her works dissected a world marked by the catastrophe of the Great War and an intense consumer culture and reassembled it in revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Höch kept to her artistic means and her poetic-radical imagination, shimmering between social observation and dream world, even in the post-WWII period. Scissors and glue were the weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a co-inventor.