Dada Presentism : An Essay on Art and History / Maria Stavrinaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stavrinaki, Maria, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism--Germany--Berlin.

Dadaism.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Arts and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art within it. The original (Berlin-based) Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their modern experience of time, she contends, anticipated the formulations of major historians such as Reinhart Koselleck and, more recently, François Hartog. The book explores Dada temporalities and concepts of history in works of art, artistic discourse, and in the photographs of the Berlin Dada movement. These photographs—including the famous one of the First International Dada Fair—are presented not as simple, transparent documents, but as formal deployments conforming to a very concrete theory of history. This approach allows Stavrinaki to link Dada to more contemporary artistic movements and practices interested in history and the archive. At the same time, she investigates what seems to be a real oxymoron of the movement: its simultaneous claim to the ephemeral and its compulsive writing of its own history. In this way, Dada Presentism also interrogates the limits between history and fiction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. ORLANDO

I. POSTHISTORY AND PREHISTORY

II. THE PRESENT AS REPRODUCIBLE TIME

III. ART’S EFFICACY OR DADA’S USE VALUE

IV. THE MOMENT OF DECISION

V. THE PARADIGM OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804798150

080479815X

OCLC:

1178769435