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Destruction was my Beatrice : Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century / Jed Rasula.
Fine Arts Library NX456.5.D3 R37 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasula, Jed, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dadaism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to understand today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Magic Bishop and Mr. Aspirin
- Fantastic prayers
- Dada hurts
- Merz
- Spark plugs
- Last loosening
- A need for complications
- Nothing, nothing, nothing
- A Dostoyevsky drama
- New life
- Yes no
- Truth or myth?
- The afterlife of Dada.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465089963
- 0465089968
- OCLC:
- 893454956
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