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Title: Dada: Art and Anti-Art (World of Art) by Hans Richter, David Britt ISBN: 0-500-20039-4 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: You Are There
Comment: Hans Richter lived on the fringes of Zurich's Dada movement, and here offers a personal narrative of the Dada movement and its eventual successor, Surrealism. This was the first book I'd ever read on Dada and I found it quite sufficient -- all the personalities are introduced, and their motivations and how they came together are revealed. Richter is best in the earliest sections, while discussing the birth of the influential Cabaret Voltaire and how the First World War helped amplify Dada's influence in Europe. The book peters out a bit in later chapters, but is still a detailed look at the subject. If you are simply seeking an understanding of the movement, this book is a fast and entertaining read.
Rating: 5
Summary: dada, where art thou?
Comment: In the interest of re-appropriating dada, read this book on the origins of the movement in Zurich at the Cabaret Voltaire. The Hanover period is less than compelling except for the brilliant Kurt Schwitters. His attempt to gatecrash the Club in Zurich led to marginal friendships with the progenitors - he was perceived as too bourgeois - and Schwitters went on to non-fame in exile in Britain, snubbed by the international art intelligentsia, which still denigrates his late work. Most interesting role? Hugo Ball, the impresario of the Cabaret Voltaire who championed the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) then dropped out to live in the Ticino in Tolstoi-esque self-induced poverty. Greatest sub-narrative? The battle for the ownership of dada by the hangers-on.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good for reading in the car.
Comment: I bought this book in Flordia because I had to go to a wedding, and there wasn't much to do that I enjoyed. The photo plates are extra good because I had never seen the paintings that had to do with the men and women of Dada. There are many good photographs of the Dada people too. The events in the book are inscribed well, and the excitement is carried over into your very home and arms.
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Title: The Dada Almanac by Richard Huelsenbeck, Malcolm Green, Barbara Wright, James Kirkup ISBN: 0947757627 Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Dada & Surrealism A&i by Matthew Gale ISBN: 0714832618 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 19 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology by Robert Motherwell, Bernard Karpel, Jack D. Flam ISBN: 0674185005 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $31.50 |
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Title: Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse ISBN: 0262692600 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art) by Hugo Ball, John Elderfield, Ann Raimes ISBN: 0520204409 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.75 |
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