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Article: Cut with the Kitchen Knife: the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Maud Lavin's study of avant-garde artist Hannah Hoch is the latest of a number of recent feminist contributions to research on the art, politics and culture of the Weimar Republic. Indeed, for more than a decade now, feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines have challenged the conventional view of Weimar culture (popularized by Peter Gay's Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider) in which the artistic revolt in Germany of the 1920s as well as the subsequent fascist reaction to it are seen in exclusively male and narrowly oedipal terms. (For example, the chapter of Gays book that describes Expressionism in the arts is titled The Revolt of the Son," while another ...