Virgin microbe : essays on Dada / edited by David Hopkins and Michael White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, David, 1955-

White, Michael, 1969-

Series:

Avant-garde and modernism studies

AGM studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism--History.

Dadaism.

Dadaism--Influence.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Arts, Modern--20th century--History.

Arts, Modern.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction / David Hopkins and Michael White

Part one. Dada's dissemination

Dada geographies / Timothy O. Benson

Tristan Tzara's "international of the mind" : Dadaglobe (1920-1921) / Adrian Sudhalter

Some reflections on the margins of Dada / Hubert van den Berg

Psrt two. Dada metaphysics

"The uncorrupt image" : Hugo Ball, Zurich Dada, and the aesthetics, politics, and metaphysics of asceticism / Debbie Lewer

Duchamp's metaphysics : dust breeding / David Hopkins

Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau : arche-texture as Kunststuck / Rainer Rumold

Space, time, and Raoul Hausmann's Tete mecanique : Berlin Dada and Jewish neo-Kantianism / Michael White

Part three. Dada identities

Blinds and blackness : looking again at Tristan Tzara / Elizabeth Legge

"Swallows, parrots, and the cacadou superieur" : Arp as self-translator / Eric Robertson

Part four. Dada and mass culture

Dada and kitsch : cultivation of the trivial / Sherwin Simmons

"Every man his own football" : Dada Berlin, sport, and Weimar culture / Andreas Kramer

Cardboard toys and dancing marionettes : play, materiality and agency in Zurich Dada / Joyce Suechen Cheng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780810129399

0810129396

OCLC:

843858243