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Description: Collage. Cut-out and overlaid photomechanical elements, 10x6 1/2 inches (25.4x16.5 cm.), with Höch's penciled initials on mount recto. Circa 1925-30

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Notes: formerly in the collection of a german gentleman. Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was a pioneer in the field of photocollage and the sole female member of the Berlin Dada movement, an artistic and literary movement that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity. Höch made collages from stills taken from newspapers and magazines that she cut up for political effect. Much of her work focuses on the political and psychological deconstruction of the representation of women in the mass media during the Weimar era. This particular object explores issues of identity, gender roles, exoticism, and fantasy, with a visual and conceptual wit that may be seen as more light-hearted and whimsical than some of her other collages.