Hannah Höch, Unsere Lieben Kleinen, 1924

Looking for some holiday reading? Discover our favourite entries from 2021’s This Artwork Changed My Life series, where writers discuss a revelatory personal encounter with art. Displaying this collage by the German Dadaist Hannah Höch on her office door, for instance, allowed poet and writer Holly Pester to poke fun at institutional existence. “The figure’s expression is both joyful and bizarre,” she writes. “As a picture labelling my office it more than adequately represents the hysterical, worked-maddened, yet overindulged profile of any university’s academic staff.” Click here to read on.