Dada magazines : the making of a movement / Emily Hage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hage, Emily, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism--Periodicals.

Dadaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This authoritative, first volume entirely devoted to critical analysis of Dada periodicals retells the story of Dada by demonstrating the centrality of these graphically inventive, provocative periodicals: Dada, New York Dada, Dada Jok, and dozens more that began crossing enemy lines during World War I. The book includes well-known Dada centres like New York and Paris as well as cities such as Zagreb and Bucharest, and reveals that Dada continued to inspire art journals into the 1920s, years after most accounts of the movement end. Anchored in close material analysis within a historical and theoretical framework, Dada Magazines models a novel, multifaceted methodology for assessing all kinds of periodicals. Borrowing from Actor-Network Theory, it recognizes the journals as active agents that engendered the Dada network, and its thematic, chronological structure captures the constant exchanges that took place in this network, something missed in the city-by-city approach typically used. The book employs evidence such as postmarks, page proofs, and censors' stamps to detail how the Dadaists-Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Dragan Aleksic, Hannah Höch, and many others-funded, compiled, printed, distributed, and exchanged these publications. Combining in-depth scrutiny of these magazines - and 1970s "Dadazines" inspired by them - with a comprehensive appendix of Dada-affiliated periodicals, Dada Magazines is a vital source in the histories of art and design, periodical studies, and modernist studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Plates

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. An Extraordinary Opportunity to be Denounced as a Wit: How Magazines Launched 'Dada,' 1916-1917

2. 'Every page must explode': Dada Magazines as Exhibition Venues, 1918-1919

3. Printing Artworks, Exhibiting Ephemera: Dada Journals and Exhibitions, 1920-1921

4. 'Be on your guard, Madam': New York Dada and the Magazine as Readymade, 1921

5. Contingency and Continuity: Dada Magazines and the Expanding Network, 1922-1926 Epilogue: Magazines to Zines: Echoes of Dada in 1970s America

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2005, under the title: New York and European Dada art journals, 1916-1926.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501342684

1501342681

9781501342677

1501342673

9781501342691

150134269X

OCLC:

1230789623