My House-Sayings

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My House-Sayings is a work by Hannah Höch, created in 1922. It is a subverted version of a traditional German guest book. Instead of well wishes from visitors, the book is filled with sayings from Dadaists and German writers like Goethe and Nietzsche. For example, a saying by Dada poet Richard Hülsenbeck states, "Death is a thoroughly Dadaist affair."1

Hannah Höch was a German artist and the only woman associated with the Berlin Dada group. She was known for her photomontage compositions that explored perceptions of gender and ethnic differences during the Weimar era.1

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…of Höch’s final Dada works, My House-Sayings (1922), is a subverted version of a traditional German guest book that, instead of bearing good wishes from house guests written upon their departure, is scrawled with sayings by Dadaists and German writers, including Goethe and Nietzsche. For example, one saying by Dada…
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…of Höch’s final Dada works, My House-Sayings (1922), is a subverted version of a traditional German guest book that, instead of bearing good wishes from house guests written upon their departure, is scrawled with sayings by Dadaists and German writers, including Goethe and Nietzsche. For example, one saying by Dada…
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