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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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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.....
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.....
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....
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