Dada bodies : between battlefield and fairground / Elza Adamowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamowicz, Elza, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism.

Human figure in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

Contents:

Introduction: spare parts

Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance

Shooting the classical body

Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine

Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque

Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition

Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis

Fluid bodies, shifting identities

Dada's Africa

Limit-bodies

Conclusion: exquisite corpses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526131164

1526131161

9781526131157

1526131153

OCLC:

1089931422