The Dada Archivist : Peter Lang : 9781800798892 : 180079889X : 31 Oct 2023 : &«With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together archival treasures and different forms of three-dimensional montage in their homes and workspaces to create living art in difficult times.» (Maud Lavin, Professor Emerita, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch) &«Focusing on Hannah Höch's archive (rather than her artworks) and her post-Second World War activities (rather than the Dada period), Stina Barchan bypasses conventional approaches to the artist and compellingly argues that Höch's holistic approach to art and life in this period was among the most fundamentally subversive and radical of her career.» (Adrian Sudhalter, author of Dadaglobe Reconstructed) The archive of the