Dada : art and anti-art /

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Author / Creator:Richter, Hans, 1888-1976, author.
Edition:Dada centenary edition / with a new introduction and commentary by Michael White.
Imprint:London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2016.
Description:xvi, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:World of Art
World of art.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10925024
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Other authors / contributors:Britt, David, 1939- translator.
Haftmann, Werner, 1912-1999, writer of afterword.
White, Michael, 1969- writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
ISBN:9780500204313
0500204314
Notes:Originally published in 1965.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:First published in English in 1965, this publication changed the interpretation of Dada from a literary phenomenon to an artistic one. Ever since, it has been the first port of call for anyone interested in the subject. As a member of the first Dada group in Zurich during the First World War, Richter was in a unique position to tell its history, and his book drew together not only important historical documents but the testimonies of friends, such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Raoul Hausmann. The compelling nature of his narrative has continued to inspire artists and historians. To celebrate one hundred years of Dada, Thames & Hudson is reissuing this unique document exactly as it first appeared in an expanded centenary edition. This edition features a new introduction telling the story of how the book came about and an extended commentary that identifies Richter's sources and brings the study up to date for a new generation of readers. With a new introductory and commentary by Michael White.
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'Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace', writes Hans Richter, the artist and film-maker closely associated with this radical movement from its earliest days. Here, he records and traces Dada's history, from its inception in wartime Zurich, to its collapse in Paris in the 1920s when many of its members were to join the Surrealist movement, to its reappearance in the 1960s in movements such as Pop Art. This absorbing eyewitness narrative is enlivened by extensive use of Dada documents, illustrations and texts by fellow Dadaists. The complex personalities, relationships and contributions of, among others, Hugo Bali, Tristan Tzara, Picabia, Arp, Schwitters, Hausmann, Duchamp, Ernst and Man Ray, are vividly brought to life.

Over a hundred years on from the riotous inception of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, art historian Michael White provides a new introduction and commentary to a book that has become a legend in its own right, influencing a generation of performers and artists since its first publication in 1965 - David Bowie even quoted from Dada: Art and Anti-Art in his Scary Monsters album. Michael White has unearthed Richter's private correspondence with his fellow Dada artists to tell the story of how the book came about and, using previously unseen archive sources, enables us to read between the lines and discover the truth behind this most elusive of art movements.

Item Description:Originally published in 1965.
Physical Description:xvi, 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780500204313
0500204314