Toys of the Avant Garde

Visual Journal: HANDMADE PUPPETS/ Toys of the Avant-Garde http://mondo-blogo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/toys-of-avant-garde.html

Hanna Höch: ‘Dada Dolls’, 1916 Handcrafted What is ‘High Art’?

Reappropriation Dadaism

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Puppets, 1918 Found Objects, Performance, Simplification, Deconstruction & Reconstruction

Paul Klee: ‘Big Eared Clown’, 1925 Personal, Experimental. Blue Rider Almanac

(all united in their desire to create new art independent of existing rules and canons, and to withdraw from ‘the Modernist programme of the modern art which is externally oriented’.