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Dadaism

Dietmar Elger ; Uta Grosenick (ed.) ; [English translation, Michael Scuffil]

Taschen, c2016

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"Basic art series 2.0"--Back flap of dust jacket

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Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on the politics, social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastating conflict. Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to replace logic and reason with the absurd, chaotic, and unpredictable. Their practice encompassed experimental theater, games, guttural sound-making, collage, photomontage, chance-based procedures, and the "readymade," most notoriously Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Fountain (1917). Throughout, the Dadaists considered the visual appearance of their work secondary to the ideas and critiques it expressed. In this sense, Dada may be seen as a fundamental precursor to conceptual art. With a selection of key works from some of the most famous proponents of Dada such as Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray, this book introduces this urgent, subversive, and determined 20th-century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.

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  • NCID
    BB26373886
  • ISBN
    • 9783836505628
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    und
  • Place of Publication
    Köln
  • Pages/Volumes
    95 p.
  • Size
    27 cm
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