In this first-hand account, the author, closely associated with the radical and transforming movement from its earliest days, records and traces Dada's history from its inception around 1916, in wartime Zurich, to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s.
'This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life' - "The Posthuman Dada Guide". "The Posthuman Dada Guide" is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world - all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada ...
"Dada"--the catalog to the exhibition on view in 2006 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and The Museum of Modern Art in New York--presents the hybrid forms of Dada art through an examination of city centers where Dada emerged: Zrich, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, New York, and Paris. 550 illustrations, 400 in full color.
Dada developed in distinct periods and locations, providing the structure of the book. From Europe and New York during the First World War it spread to Eastern Europe and Japan in the 1920s. Its re-emergence as Neo-Dada in the 1950s and influence on Fluxus in the 1960s was linked to emigres such as Marcel Duchamp and Hans Richter. Survey: ...
This introductory survey traces the origins and development of two revolutionary 20th-century art movements: Dada and Surrealism. It explores the full range of artistic production, including film, photography and painting. The art is situated within a context of ideas. Against the background of the slaughter of World War I, the Dadas embarked upon ...
This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential 20th-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desno's and Man Ray's "L ...
Amelia Jones gives us a history of New York Dada, reinterpreted in relation to the life and works of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In Irrational Modernism Jones enlarges our conception of New York Dada beyond the male avant-garde heroics of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia to include the rebellious body of the Baroness; they ...
While Dada is frequently thought of as having been a primarily male movement, this collection of essays argues that Dada also depended on the changes in women's roles brought about by birth control, the vote, and changes in working conditions. 20 scholars contribute essays on Mina Loy, Suzanne Duchamp, Clara Tice, cross-dressing, dandyism, and ...
The revolutionary artistic and political movement, Dada, emerged amid the unprecedented carnage of the First World War. Although short-lived, the movement, a heady mix of anarchy, nihilism and a lethal dash of humour, produced a vast amount of creative work, in both art and literature. Rejecting all social and artistic convention, the Dada artists ...
The title of Jerome Rothenberg's newest collection suggests jazz, blues, and above all the Dada Movement in European art and poetry in the years immediately following World War I. Following the title section is 'Imaginal Geographies, a group of poems that draw largely on the poet's private self, his own language and perceptions, in much the same ...
Tristan Tzara--poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst--was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zurich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 ...
Richard Huelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the intellectual, artistic, and political concerns of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document its controversies. Illustrated with woodcuts and drawings by George Grosz and Hans Arp, 'Memoirs of a Dada Drummer' also includes a sixteen-page section of rare photographs.
This book presents a new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.The artist Francis Picabia - notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist - has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in ...
The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction.
The two related movements, Dada and Surrealism, dominated the art world between the two World Wars with a new form of art that was intended to shock the spectator into a new awareness of reality. But Dada and Surrealism were more than just movements in art advocating new styles of painting; they were the expression of a revolt against Western ...
"Dada Means Nothing!" So proclaimed Tristan Tzara, the movement's tireless publicist. Yet this did not prevent the most fanatical and talented artists and writers across Europe from rushing to join its ranks. Anti-war, anti-art, anti-dada, from its beginnings in Zurich during the first World War the dadas swept aside the cultural, philosophical ...
In poetry, the Dadaists' distrust of logic, which they saw as a correlative of traditional authority, led to fanatically antilogical compositions and an aesthetic strategy based on subversion, distortion, and disruption.
In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins offers an exciting new contribution to the discussion about 'a crisis in masculinity', addressing the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current artistic and theoretical debate. Bestriding the book is the pivotal figure of the artist Marcel ...
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