Willard Bohn s collection of Dada poetry is the most comprehensive ever compiled. Forty-two poets writing in seven different languages (French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Dutch) are presented in a bilingual format, where appropriate, with the original text and its English translation on facing pages. The collection, which opens with a critical and historical introduction, spans the years from 1914 to 1923 and includes such poets as Walter Conrad Arensberg, Andre Breton, Malcolm Cowley, Max Ernst, Mina ...
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Willard Bohn s collection of Dada poetry is the most comprehensive ever compiled. Forty-two poets writing in seven different languages (French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Dutch) are presented in a bilingual format, where appropriate, with the original text and its English translation on facing pages. The collection, which opens with a critical and historical introduction, spans the years from 1914 to 1923 and includes such poets as Walter Conrad Arensberg, Andre Breton, Malcolm Cowley, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Tristan Tzara. Twelve works by ten Dada visual artists (six of whom are also represented by their poetry) illustrate the book. Dada s overriding concern was libertysocial, moral, artistic, and intellectual. While rebelling against bourgeois values and all forms of authority, the Dadaists venerated scandalous behavior, spontaneity, and a general "joie de vivre. "Their adherents questioned the basic postulates of rationalism and humanism as few had done before. In trying to strip artistic expression down to its bare essentials, these writers often created works that were experiments in sound or typography."
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Seller's Description:
Good in Good jacket. Poetry Full blue-green cloth boards. Dust jacket has a liquid stain and some paper from dust jacket is stuck to bottom of front cover of book. Small liquid stain to lower edge of approx. first 25 pages. 232 pages. Smells a bit of nag champa incense. Includes work by Walter Conrad, André Breton, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, and others.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Poetry Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Full teal cloth boards. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 232 pages.
