Hannah Hoch’s ‘Monument’ is a photomontage of what can be assumed as a feminine subject. She is made of many different recontextualised pieces: the head as a mask from Gabon, body as a Theban Goddess, left leg as an unknown arm and right leg from an image of Lilian Harvey. Each individual object forming this unorthodox body has its own meaning but essentially form a commentary on the women’s role in society through a battle of entrapment and liberation, or liberation through entrapment all within the eyes of the patriarch. This can draw reference to the idea of the new women after world war 1. Due to the war, women were expected to take up roles that were needed while their male counterparts were fighting in the war from this they found a sense of freedom with working in this new environment. But when the soldiers returned there was became conflict on what the real role of women were, it was not exactly possible for them to return to their domestic lifestyle. As Hoch was part of the Dada movement, it is possible that she used her art piece to shed light on the ironic, paradoxical nature of how women were treated in this post war society. She seems to mock the idea of how women seem to be worshipped but at the same time objectified, similar to the idea of putting someone on a pedestal.