Ten Female Dadaists

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Today would have been the 125th birthday of

feminist Dada artist Hannah Höch — dubbed

“art’s original punk” by (http://www.the‐

guardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan

/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel) The

Guardian earlier this year. As the article

points out, Höch was an unlikely addition to

the early 20th-century group — which fa‐

vored the irrational, nihilistic, collaborative,

and spontaneous — namely, because Höch

was a woman. One of the group’s pioneering

photomontage artists, Höch critiqued the

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role of women, beauty standards, marriage,

the politics of her home country, Germany,

and the oft-misogynist Dada group itself.

Take Höch’s 1919 work Cut With the Kitchen

Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly

Cultural Epoch of Germany, for instance. The

title says it all. In celebration of Höch’s essen‐

tial contributions to Dada and the art world

at large, we’re visiting the works of other fe‐

male Dadaists who you should know.

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