{"product_id":"the-dada-archivist-christian-weikop-9781800798892","title":"The Dada Archivist: Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters and Berlin Dada","description":"\u003cp\u003e With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Hh and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together archival treasures and different forms of three-dimensional montage in their homes and workspaces to create living art in difficult times. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Maud Lavin, Professor Emerita, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of \u003ci\u003eCut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hh\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Focusing on Hannah Hh's archive (rather than her artworks) and her post-Second World War activities (rather than the Dada period), Stina Barchan bypasses conventional approaches to the artist and compellingly argues that Hh's holistic approach to art and life in this period was among the most fundamentally subversive and radical of her career. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Adrian Sudhalter, author of \u003ci\u003eDadaglobe Reconstructed\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe archive of the German artist Hannah Hh (1889-1978) has long been an important source of material for historians researching the interwar avant-garde and artists associated with Berlin Dada. This book explores Hh's practices of organisation when assembling the documents in her house outside Berlin from 1939 until her death. Through extensive research, the author argues that Hh's archive should be considered not just a collection of documents but a work in its own right, intimately connected with the artist's daily life. Noting the importance of understanding the mechanisms of this work, the book suggests that Hh took charge of both preserving and exploring the possibilities of Dada long after the group had been officially dissolved.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe file that Hh assembled on her friend, the artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), plays an important part in the book, its content revealing how domestic habits infused both artists' practices. Juxtaposing Hh's archive and Schwitters's \u003ci\u003eMerzbau\u003c\/i\u003e, the author argues for an interactive movement between the two that has fundamental implications for how we understand both artists' oeuvres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian Weikop, Stina Barchan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 180079889X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800798892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.94d","brand":"Christian Weikop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44491508908287,"sku":"9781800798892","price":90.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_072156e5-e016-4734-944b-47af0c7f3959.jpg?v=1699451599","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dada-archivist-christian-weikop-9781800798892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}