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The Neue Frau And The Significance Of Beetle Imagery In The Photomontages Of Hannah Hӧch, Hannah C. Waara
The Neue Frau And The Significance Of Beetle Imagery In The Photomontages Of Hannah Hӧch, Hannah C. Waara
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
Hannah Höch incorporated the image of a beetle into several of her photomontages. By analyzing three of her works, Untitled (c. 1920), From Above (c. 1922), and The Coquette (1923-25), I propose Höch’s beetle to be a response to the archeological understanding of the Egyptian scarab’s meaning of rebirth, which directly relates to the contemporary social phenomenon of the neue Frau, or New Woman. Thus, by removing the beetle from the focal points of these works, Höch represents the society’s rejection of the neue Frau as well as the Berlin Dadaists’ rejection of her.
To evaluate the significance of these …