10 Female Dadaists You Should Know

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Today would have been the 125th birthday of

feminist Dada artist Hannah Hch dubbed
arts original punk by
(http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/20
14/jan/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel)
The Guardian earlier this year. As the article
points out, Hch was an unlikely addition to the
early 20th-century group which favored the
irrational, nihilistic, collaborative, and
spontaneous namely, because Hch was a
woman. One of the groups pioneering
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photomontage artists, Hch critiqued the role of

women, beauty standards, marriage, the politics
of her home country, Germany, and the oftmisogynist Dada group itself. Take Hchs 1919
work Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the
Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of
Germany, for instance. The title says it all. In
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Suzanne Duchamp
The youngest of the Duchamp siblings, Suzanne
Duchamp lived in the famed Montparnasse
Quarter of Paris so brother Marcel could help
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closest of all the siblings). Female painters
struggled for legitimacy at that time, despite
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being formally trained as Suzanne was at the

Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. But the painters
legacy was assured after an impressive showing
in the Salon des Indpendants in Paris at 22
years old. One of Duchamp the Youngers key
Dada works, 1919s Multiplication brise et rtablie
(Broken and Restored Multiplication), possessed the
holy trinity of Dada: ananti-aesthetic
sensibility, collage, and text. The mirror would
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balloons would fly away, the stars would dim,
etc. her abstract cityscape reads.
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Sophie Taeuber
Collaborator and wife of Dadaist Jean Arp,
Sophie Taeubers work demonstrated an affinity
for color and geometric forms. Her austerely
geometric art arose from her belief in the innate
expressive power of colour, line and form, and
was informed by unusual wit and freedom. She
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rejected her contemporaries progressive

schematization of objective form, writes
(http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?
artist_id=5777) Oxford University Press.
During the years of Dada in Zurich (191620),
Taeuber-Arp not only painted but also made a
series of polychrome wood heads, including the
portrait of Jean Arp (191819; Paris,
Pompidou), and designed the sets and
marionettes (Zurich, Mus. Bellerive) for a
performance of Carlo Gozzis Knig Hirsch in
1918 in conjunction with the exhibition of the
Swiss workshop in Zurich. She was an
accomplished dancer and performed at Cabaret
Voltaire evenings. Taeuber performed at the
opening of exhibition space Galerie Dada,
wearingan elaborate mask
(http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=4680)
fashioned by one of Dadas founders, Marcel
Janco.
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Beatrice Wood
What is Dada about this lecture is that I know
nothing about Dada. I was only in love with
men connected with it, which I suppose is as
near to being Dada as anything, Beatrice Wood
told (http://books.google.com/books?
id=Zfcvu3FIokoC&printsec=frontcover#v=one
page&q&f=false) an audience at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art in 1978. Indeed, in her day
Wood was known for her sexual flings (and
several imagined relationships she portrayed in
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her art) more than her artistic contributions to

Dada. But today she holds the title of the Mama
of Dada, after a colorful career and a lifelong
passion for ceramics lasting until her death at
105 years old. [Her] drawings have the
combined openness and intimacy of a daily
diary, revealing the wit and humor, pathos and
joie de vivre for which Woods so well known,
writes
(http://artforum.com/picks/section=us&mode=
past) Art Forum. For example, works from
Touching Certain Things, 193233, depict
sexually tinged interactions between women
with a directness and sweetness that remains,
despite a quaint illustrative style, radical for our
times.
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Emmy Hennings
A fixture at Zurich nightclub the Cabaret
Voltaire (co-founded by her husband, leading
Dadaist Hugo Ball) and the Galerie Dada
where she sang, recited her written works,
danced, and performed with puppets Emmy
Hennings was publishing poetry in anarchist
publications well before the days of Dada. Poet,
professor, and performance artist Crystal
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Hoffman writes
(http://crystaljhoffman.wordpress.com/academi
c-writing/emmy-hennings-star-of-the-cabaretvoltaire-and-dadas-mystic-mother/) a
fascinating history on Hennings, who remains
largely absent from the Dada library:
Hennings preferred to keep from history
most of the creative work produced during
her long career as a member of Munich and
Zurichs Avant-Garde inner circles, as it
would unfortunately also reveal a long career
as a morphine addict, prostitute, and hustler,
who frequently promoted free-love, anarchy,
and social revolution, and spent several stints
in prison, at least once for forging passports
for draft dodgers. For this reason, it seems
that Emmy Hennings welcomed individual
artistic anonymity in favor of becoming a
footnote to Hugo Balls career.
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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
No spinsterlollypop for me!
Yes! We have no bananas
I got lusting palate
I always eat them
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Theres the vibrator

Coy flappertoy!
A dozen cocktails, please!
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
(http://www.nthposition.com/threenewtran
slation.php)
She was a living work of art who embodied
Dada in ways that her male counterparts only
dared to dream of. Artist model, vagabond, poet,
radical performer, fashion icon
(http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/o
bsession-baroness-elsa-von-freytagloringhoven#_), and freewheeling feminist Elsa
von Freytag-Loringhoven was keeping
Greenwich Village weird
(http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/collections/EvFL
-class/bios.html) decades before the 60s (often
arrested for her revealing costumes and ongoing
habit of stealing anything that caught her eye,
she leaped from patrol wagons with such agility
that policemen let her go in admiration'). Its
also written that she was the inspiration behind
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Duchamps Fountain.And you should absolutely

read (http://books.google.com/books?
id=ak2UNE5rRpQC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=s
haved+head+Baroness+Elsa:+Gender,+Dada,+a
nd+Everyday+Modernity-A+Cultural+Biography&source=bl&ots=epvvxs
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Baroness first meeting with The Little Review
editor Margaret Anderson.
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Mina Loy
British bohemian Mina Loy became a Dada ally
by way of her writings, though she was also an
artist who explored unconventional forms and
materials (including trash from Manhattan
garbage bins). Another well-known Greenwich
Village figure, Loy enjoyed provoking the status
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quo (and all its gender norms) evidenced in

the work she published in modernist poetry
mag Others. We looked too wholesome in
Court representing filthy literature, she once
recalled (http://books.google.com/books?
id=ak2UNE5rRpQC&printsec=frontcover#v=o
nepage&q&f=false) after the publications
editors were forced before judge and jury.
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Clara Tice
Queen of Greenwich Village Clara Tice was a
fashion icon, but her cutting-edge style was only
one point of fascination. She helped organize
one of the first independent art exhibitions
(with the Society of Independent Artists), battled
censorship when the Society for the
Suppression of Vice tried to shut down one her
art shows, and graced the pages of popular mags
like Vanity Fair bridging the uncomfortable
gap between true Dada and its mainstream
dalliance.
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Toyen
On
(http://www.galerieart.cz/toyen__zivotopis.ht
m) gender-bending artist Toyen (aka Marie
ermnov), who took her name from the
French word citoyen which translates to
citizen:
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From artistic, political and personal point of

views, she was one of the most independent
creative artists in the last century. Toyen
rejected her name (Marie Cerminova) and
chose to pursue her career as an artist under
an assumed name a mysterious name
without a gender. She broke all links to her
family in favour of several friends who were
bound by choice. Toyen protested against
bourgeois tendencies and endorsed the
anarchist movement. She disclaimed any
suggestion that she play a traditional
womans role by leading an independent way
of life and, on the other hand, displaying no
compromise for the quality of her work.
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Juliette Roche
Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Juliette
Roches not-so-humble beginnings offered her a
first-row seat at various art-world and political
happenings, which she was exposed to since an
early age. She channeled this knowledge into
innovative paintings and poems (like the 1920
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book Demi Cercle), but she also maintained a

critical eye when it came to the Dada boy-club
hijinks.
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Florine Stettheimer
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The career of Florine Stettheimer, painter,

poet, and designer, disproves the myth of the
artist as a lonely and misunderstood genius,
struggling to produce works that transcend his
(and less frequently, her) own historical time
and place, writes
(http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stettheime
r-florine) the Jewish Womens Archive.
Stettheimers paintings are lively, diarylike
accounts of her life, but also acute examinations
of upper-class ways in New York between the
wars. Her decorative, figurative style, often
characterized as feminine, offers an alternative
to prevailing modes of contemporary modernist
painting. Stettheimer also founded a New York
City salon, where she hosted the whos who of
Dada including Marcel Duchamp, whose
portrait
(http://letmypeopleshow.tumblr.com/post/129
68127606/dada-yankee-the-androgynousdisembodied) she frequently painted in an
androgynous manner (radical for the time and
from a woman).
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10 Female Dadaists You

Today would have been the 125th birthday of

photomontage artists, Hch critiqued the role of

the works of other female Dadaists who you

her establish her career (they were perhaps the

being formally trained as Suzanne was at the

Aziz Ansaris Bobby Jindal

shatter, the scaffolding would totter, the

rejected her contemporaries progressive

her art) more than her artistic contributions to

Theres the vibrator

Duchamps Fountain.And you should absolutely

quo (and all its gender norms) evidenced in

From artistic, political and personal point of

book Demi Cercle), but she also maintained a

The career of Florine Stettheimer, painter,

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