Dada and beyond. Volume 2, Dada and its legacies / edited by Elza Adamowicz and Eric Robertson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamowicz, Elza.

Robertson, Eric, 1965-

Series:

Avant-Garde Critical Studies 27.

Avant-garde critical studies ; 27

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dadaism.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Other Title:

Dada and its legacies

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

International, iconoclastic, inventive, born out of the institutionalised madness of the First World War, Dada erupted in cities throughout Europe and the USA, creating shock waves that offended polite society and destabilised the cultural and political status quo. In spite of its sporadic and ephemeral character, its rich and diverse legacy is still powerfully felt nearly a century later. Following on from Dada and Beyond Volume 1: Dada Discourses , the sixteen essays in this collection provide critical examinations of Dada, placing particular emphasis on the ongoing impact of its creative output. The chapters examine its pivotal figures as well as its more peripheral protagonists, their different geographic locations, and the extraordinary diversity of their practices that included poetry, painting, printmaking, dance, performance, theatre, textiles, readymades, photomontage and cinema. As the book’s authors reveal, Dada not only anticipates Surrealism but also foreshadows an extraordinary array of more recent tendencies including action painting, conceptual art, outsider art, performance art, environmental and land art. In its privileging of chance and automatism, its rejection of formal artistic institutions, its subversive exploitation of mass media and its constant self-reconstitution and self-redefinition, Dada deserves to be seen as a cultural phenomenon that is still powerfully relevant in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Dada and Beyond, Volume 2

Zurich Dada Dance Performance and the Role of Sophie Taeuber / Jill Fell

L’Acte Dada / Catherine Dufour

‘Dada is Dead – Long Live Dada’: The Influence of Dadaism on Contemporary Performance Art / Kerstin Sommer

Francis Picabia, Stacia Napierkowska, and the Cinema: The Circuits of Perception / Jennifer Wild

Patterns of Duality – Between/Beyond Dada and Surrealism: Man Ray’s Emak Bakia (1926) / Kim Knowles

Spectres of Dada: From Man Ray to Marker and Godard / Ramona Fotiade

The Location of Dada Culture: Revising the Cultural Coordinates / Dafydd Jones

Le Cabaret Voltaire en perspective / Nadia Ghanem

Dada et la fonction écologique de l’art (à partir de Fountain de Duchamp) / Patrick Suter

Dans le sillage de Dada: Dubuffet, Michaux, Alechinsky et autres “périphériques” / Nathalie Roelens

The Critical Reception of René Crevel: The 1920s and Beyond / Paul Cooke

Enfants naturels ou filles spirituelles ? À propos de quelques réflexions sur l’esprit de filiation Dada dans les pratiques “autographiques” des auteures-artistes surréalistes / Andrea Oberhuber

“The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive”: Dylan Thomas as Surrealist / John Goodby

Tararira de Benjamin Fondane et l’héritage subversif du Dadaïsme / Olivier Salazar-Ferrer

Dada and its Afterlife in Czechoslovakia: Jan Švankmajer’s The Flat and Věra Chytilová’s Daisies / Alfred Thomas

The Importance of Talking Nonsense: Tzara, Ideology, and Dada in the 21st Century / Stephen Forcer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0864-6

OCLC:

851970411

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208642 DOI