Watched by Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch :: Watched, 1925. Höch feminizes the Dada movement’s engagement with the everyday by pairing craft techniques, traditionally seen as women’s work, with the avant-garde strategy of photomontage. | src MoMA

Indian Dancer by Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch :: Indian Dancer From an Ethnographic Museum (Indische Tänzerin Aus einem ethnographischen Museum) 1930. Her collaged model is the actress Renée (Maria) Falconetti, appearing in a publicity still for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc.| src MoMA

Sirenas del Aire, ca. 1935–36

Lola Álvarez-Bravo :: Sirenas del Aire, ca. 1935–36, printed ca. 1958. Álvarez-Bravo offers a pairing of the modern and the classical world using the surrealist approach of juxtaposing improbable objects. Two mermaids, their backs to the viewer, float on an empty picture. These mermaids (or sirens) have chosen a more modern vehicle to send their messages, a typewriter. | src Surrealism and Women Artists

Oriental dance, 1920s

Otton Engel’s Oriental dance, mid-1920s. Collage and coloured paper on paper. Catalogue of the third “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1927, Nº 543. OE | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Faces Group (Lyn), 1975-1977

Jo Spence :: Faces Group (Lyn), 1975-1977. Workbook with gelatin silver prints ans masks. | src Ryerson Image Centre, Jo Spence Memorial Archive

by Ray Johnson, 1960-1962

Raymond Edward Johnson (Ray Johnson) :: Untitled, 1960-1962. Printed paper and metallic string mounted on board. | src MoMA

by Ellsworth Kelly, 1964

Ellsworth Kelly :: Untitled, 1964. Torn-and-pasted printed paper with ballpoint pen on postcard. | src MoMA

Dancer (Stella Knight Ruess)

Page 9. From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL

Summer School, 1920 (?)

Page 2 (left). “To sister Bertha(e) Knight who urged me to attend summer school at (…) Morgan Dancers” (handwritten). Probably 1920. From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL

S. Ruess scrapbook, page 39

Page 39: snapshots and card announcing the celebration of Edwin Markham 97th anniversary of his birth (1949). From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL