The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch (WALKER ART CENT)

The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch, Published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996. 9 x 11.75 inches, Hardcover, half black cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, no jacket (as issued), 224 pages. Richly illustrated with 104 full-page color plates, numerous in-text illustrations, some in b/w. The most comprehensive look at Hannah Hoch’s body of work. Originally published as the catalogue for the exhibition of works by Hannah Hoch, Walker Art Center Oct 1996 – Feb 1997, MOMA New York Feb-May 1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art June – Sept 1997; organized by Maria Makela and Peter Boswell, essays by Boswell, Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner; includes a thorough Hoch chronology by Kristin Makholm; a survey of Hoch’s work from the 1920’s to the late 1960’s, with chapters on The Dada Years, The Early Work of Hannah Hoch in Context, the Interwar period, and post 1933. A beautifully produced volume on the lone female member of the German Dada movement and one of the originators of photomontage as an art form.”