Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman

Author:Terry Newman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

Embroidery is very closely related to painting. It is constantly changing with every new style each epoch brings. It is an art and ought to be treated like one. . . . You, craftswomen, modern women, who feel that your spirit is in your work, who are determined to lay claim to your rights (economic and moral), who believe your feet are firmly planted in reality, at least Y-O-U should know that your embroidery work is a documentation of your own era.

—Hannah Höch, Embroidery and Lace, 1918

Höch herself lived for different ideals. She was one of the few female artists connected to the Dadaists, but her legacy has been overshadowed by male artists such as George Grosz and John Heartfield. Despite their radical stance, they undermined her and tried to oust her work from the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920, simply because she was a woman. Another of their ilk, Hans Richter, said that her contribution to the movement was her ability, despite a lack of funds, to “conjure up beer and coffee” when required. Despite their intentions, Höch’s influential photomontage Cut With the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany went on display and became one of the exhibition’s standout pieces. Magazine pages and advertisements are artfully collaged on the canvas, in spaces labeled “Dada” and “Anti-Dada.” The title of the piece references how Höch navigated gender issues in the years after the World War I—a theme she explored over and over.

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