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Dada 1916 in Theory - Practices of Critical Resistance (Hardcover)
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Dada 1916 in Theory - Practices of Critical Resistance (Hardcover)
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Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances
that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World
War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at
the heart of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in
revision of a formation that Western art history routinely exhausts
through its characterisation as a 'revolutionary movement' of
anarchic cultural dissent, and does so in order to contest the
perpetuated assumptions about Dada that underlie the popular myth.
Dada is difficult and the response to it is not easy, and what
emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly
rational bases to the Dada non-sense that pitted itself against its
civilised age, critically and implicitly to propose that Dada
courses as vitally today as it did in 1916. The Zurich Dada
formation initiated deliberate and strategic cultural engagements
that struggled then, as they do now, to cohere in any sense as a
'movement', extreme in their ranges as diametrically hostile
oppositionalities. Dada may be given art historically as
identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures,
but it confounds all attempts at defined or definitive readings.
This book duly offers not a history of Dada in Zurich but
theoretical engagements of the emergencies and now the residue of
the years 1916-19 - from 'lautgedichte' to laughter, masks to
manifestos, chance to chiasmata - rounding to the 'permanent' Dada
by which the formation ultimately breaks the containment and deep
peace of art historical chronology.
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