1. Cut with the Dada Kitchen knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage 2. The Beautiful Girl, 1919, collage
3. Grotesque, 1963, Collage
Hoch was one of the only female members of the Dada movement, working with collage/photomontage as her medium. As with the Dadaists, she used a lot of absurd collaged images collaged together to promote various ideas, like anti-war, feminism, and racial discrimination.
Her eye for collage is of the highest order, and her use of absurd imagery really emphasizes the absurdity of war, or the subdued, faceless role of women in Germany at the time. The first two images are pretty busy, and lead you around the page quite a bit, giving you lots of information to take in, making the images real knockouts visually. The third she manages to give the same visual punch but with much less information. Same drama, but she is much more succinct.
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