Essay
Plan
Hannah
Hoch
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The image:
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How was it made?
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Why was it made?
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The possible interpretations?
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The social/cultural context in
which it was produced?
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How does your chosen image
relate to your own practice?
Layout:
Introduction of essay – point of this
essay? What am I looking to discuss? To research and analyse the work of Hannah
Hoch. The culture of the time she lived in and the reasoning behind her work.
What she went through, experienced, that reacted in her infamous photomontages
being made.
100 words (99)
Introduction into culture/history and Dadaism
- for artistic/historical context of politics/art movement.
400-600 words (681)
Introduction of Hannah Hoch – How she came
to be an artist, where she started, where she studied, her influences – and how
did this contribute to/affect her work? Where was she in terms of being in the
Dada movement and early 20th century Germany. Especially as a
female?
200-400 words (241)
The image. Critically analyse. What is your
initial response? Research the analysis from other essayists. How was it made?
Why was it made? What does it mean? The interpretations, this image has
several. Compare its meaning to its historical context.
600 words
Compare to other/similar works around that
time period/era. How is it different? How is it similar? Was it reacted to
differently? Why?
500 words
Conclusion – irony of her diminished status
as a woman at the time to the infamousness of her work today. Compare the
images’ meaning to todays’ culture/politics.
200-400 words
Dompteuse (Tamar), 1930
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