Though it's hard to read that most of her work is being fully appreciated now after her death, Hannah Hoch's story shows she was a truly dedicated artist- with or without recognition due to her gender. I especially liked that she utilized her experience with commericial and avant-garde art with both images and materials because it diversified the aesthetic aspect of her pieces. My favorite piece I saw within the article was The Bride, because Hoch is not only making a controversial statement about her society's relationship with race, but its relationship with gender, also. A photomontage by Hoch in 1924 that wasn't shown in the article I chose to add. It's called Half-Caste. What I interpreted from it is that you can't tell if it is a black woman wearing a mask of a white woman, or vice versa. What's more, is that perhaps Hoch's placing of the white mouth over the woman's face is symbolizing how little black people's voices wanted or could be heard by the powerful aspect of racism in white society during that time. Hoch made this photomontage with a purpose to make people question what they've been told is right and wrong, and I love that.
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