Hannah Höch: el fotomuntatge com a cartografia de la violència = Hannah Höch: Photomontage as a Cartography of Violence
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This article is based on a reading of Hannah
Höch’s 1920s photomontages from the
point of view of violence and as a consequence
of the traumatic experience of the
First World War. The political crisis of the
Weimar Republic and Berlin Dadaism are
addressed through the ideas of Salomo
Friedlaender, Bertold Brecht and Walter
Benjamin, as well as aspects such as the
grotesque, irony, and the work of art in the
age of technological reproducibility, subjectivity
and otherness. Germaine Krull’s
photography, primitivism in dance, masks
and the importance of ethnography are also
evident in this reading of Höch Dadaism, together
with a gender interpretation in which
the figure of the woman is represented in a
completely innovative way in terms of struggle
and resistance, starting with the writings
of Rosa Luxemburg. The concept of
Atlas or Lebenscollage is treated as a conceptual
work from the new readings of artists’
archives, highlighting their importance in 20th and 21st century art and inaugurating
a new post-photography concept of
contemporary artistic practices