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Subversive, irreverent and fiercely anti-authoritarian, Dada made
the radical suggestion that anything could be art and anyone an
artist. Emerging in the middle of the First World War, Dada writers
and artists attempted to dismantle traditional values, norms and
codes of communication and thus to deconstruct contemporary
culture. They pioneered experiments in interventionist collage,
assemblage, performance and the inclusion of the industrially
produced readymade. A decisive influence on the development of art
during the twentieth century, most of the movements that followed
have traced their roots to Dada. This volume presents a rich
selection of the Dadas' experimental visual and literary works.
Covering not only Western Europe and America but also Central and
Eastern Europe, Japan and later Neo-Dada, eminent scholar and
Director of the International Dada Archive Rudolf Kuenzli gives a
lively, accessible and comprehensive assessment. Linking visual
art, performance and literature, this is a fresh treatement of Dada
as its artists and writers saw it. Survey Rudolf Kuenzli surveys
Dada in its historical context and examines its significant impact
and resonance in art and culture today. Works provides an extensive
colour plate section with extended captions for every artwork,
organized chronologically and geographically around major
explosions of Dada activity. From its inception in Zurich we follow
Dada to New York, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, Paris, Central and
Eastern Europe, and Japan, finally looking at Neo-Dada across the
globe. It is a roll-call of the avant-garde: Hugo Ball at the
Cabaret Voltaire and Hans Arp's Automatic Drawing; Marcel Duchamp's
readymades and Man Ray's assemblages; Francis Picabia's paintings
linking machine and human form; collage with political comment from
Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoech; Kurt Schwitter's all-encompassing
concept of Merz; Max Ernst; from the East, the graphics of Lajos
Kassak and El Lissitzky; Okada Tatsuo's constructions and fireworks
attached to the cover of Mavo magazine. A look at Neo-Dada includes
Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning and the Happenings of Hi
Red Center. Documents collects original Dada writings, researched
at the International Dada Archive and sourced from around the
world. Poetry, manifestos and statements are presented together
with letters between Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp; Beatrice
Wood describes 'The Richard Mutt Case' (the first exhibition of a
urinal) to her readers of The Blind Man in 1917; and in more recent
interviews artists such as Allan Kaprow and Arman relate their Dada
inheritance.
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