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1.   Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919)
Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was a member of the Berlin Dada movement and developed the art of photomontage. This work was made from images cut and pasted from the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung....
Hannah Höch, <i>Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany</i> (1919)
2.   Cover of the Dada Almanach (1920)
Dada was an informal, international artists’ movement that emerged during World War I to protest the war and the ideology of bourgeois capitalism, which the artists regarded as the root cause of....
Cover of the <I>Dada Almanach</i> (1920)
3.   From the Dada Almanach (1920)
Dada was the first in a long line of 20th-century art movements that mixed speculation and provocation and cried out against the violence and repressiveness of contemporary society and conventional....
From the <I>Dada Almanach</i> (1920)
4.   Otto Dix, The Skat Players (1920)
Otto Dix (1891-1969) was one of the most important artists of the Dada and Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity] movements. Wounded and crippled World War I veterans are a recurring theme in....
Otto Dix, <i>The Skat Players</i> (1920)
5.   Max Beckmann, Nude Dance, from the "Berlin Travels" Cycle (1922)
Max Beckmann’s (1884-1950) traumatic experiences in the medical corps during World War I led to a profound change in his art. “Berlin Journey” was one of several postwar print cycles that depicted....
Max Beckmann, <i>Nude Dance</i>, from the "Berlin Travels" Cycle (1922)
6.   Otto Dix, Storm Troops Advance under Gas Attack (1924)
Otto Dix (1891-1969) volunteered as a machine-gunner during World War I and, after the war, became a founding member of the Dada/Expressionist Dresden Secession Group 1919 [Dresdner Sezession....
Otto Dix, <i>Storm Troops Advance under Gas Attack</i> (1924)
7.   Cover, George Grosz, The Face of the Ruling Class (1921)
George Grosz (1893-1959) published this collection of political cartoons at the height of his involvement with the Berlin Dadaists. It was one of several Grosz portfolios published by Wieland Herzfelde’s....
Cover, George Grosz, <i>The Face of the Ruling Class</i> (1921)
8.   Otto Dix, Center Panel of Metropolis (Triptych) (1927-28)
One of Otto Dix’s most ambitious works, the triptych Metropolis [Großstadt] combines his major themes of war, moral corruption, and decadence in a form reminiscent of a medieval altarpiece.....
Otto Dix, Center Panel of <i>Metropolis</i> (Triptych) (1927-28)
9.   Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Art and Race (1928)
In his polemic Art and Race [Kunst und Rasse], Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869-1949) argued that modernist art was the result of the degeneration and corruption of the “northern” races.....
Paul Schultze-Naumburg, <i>Art and Race</i> (1928)
10.   Cover of the Sheet Music for Wang Wang Blues by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1926)
Dubbed by the press as the “King of Jazz,” Paul Whiteman (1890-1967) was one of the most popular....
Cover of the Sheet Music for <I>Wang Wang Blues</i> by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1926)
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