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Höch was a pioneer of the art form that became known as photomontage.
Many of her pieces criticize the mass culture beauty industry at the time.
Women were a central theme in her work from 1963 to 1973. Höch also made
strong statements on racial discrimination. As she had said:
None of these men were satisfied with just an ordinary woman. But neither
were they included to abandon the (conventional) male/masculine morality
toward the woman. Enlightened by Freud, in protest against the older
generation. . . they all desired this ‘New Woman’ and her groundbreaking will
to freedom. But—they more or less brutally rejected the notion that they, too,
had to adopt new attitudes. . . This led to these truly Strinbergian dramas that
typified the private lives of these men.

Her dolls are probably her self-portrayment. A kind of distorted mirror for
her. There is no symmetry or harmony in them. One could describe them as
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