| Description |
xviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Dadaism.
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ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
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ART / Popular Culture.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
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Dadaism. (OCoLC)fst00886698
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| Added Title |
Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century |
| ISBN |
9780465089963 (hbk.) |
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0465089968 (hbk.) |
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9780465066940 (ebk.) |
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