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Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. The lone female member of the male dominated Berlin Dadaists, Hannah Höch worked from the 1910s to the 1980s, building a prolific career in photomontage. Born in 1889 in Gotha, Germany, Höch studied at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin in 1915. As soon as 1916, off the heels of Hugo Ball’s early Dadaist performances in Zurich, Höch began to experiment with the same satirical reflections on the modern era in her own work. Her Dada Dolls, highly geometric figures somewhere between mechanical forms and humans, played off of the jarring encroachment of technology many in the movement were feeling at the time. Höch’s collages, clever amalgamations of newspaper, magazine, photograph, and book clippings, spun the latest news into absurd and even grotesque commentaries on politics, gender, and industry. In works like “Da-Dandy”, a photomontage from 1919, she unpacks the move...

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