Dada in Paris

by Sanouillet, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780262013031
• ISBN10: 0262013037
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Winning entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2010 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris,published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early twentieth-century avant-garde. This first English-language edition of Sanouillet's definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to the author's monumental history (based on years of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, and Francis Picabia. In the years after Dada's relatively brief Paris flowering in the 1920s, its members were often depicted as opportunistic youths, hedonistic jokers engrossed in a monstrous solipsism. Sanouillet was the first to see them instead as the most gifted and sensitive representatives of a generation, intent on finding a new way of living, writing, and feeling. Dada in Parisoffers a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde's riotous adolescence, with a timeline that begins with Tzara and Picabia and stretches to include Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard. Sanouillet describes the pre-Dada Parisian milieu, the connection made with Zurich Dada, and Parisian Dada projects and their reception. Finally, by 1923, Dada-according-to-Tzara gave way to Dada-according-to-Breton-which a few months later, under tumultuous circumstances, took on the new name of Surrealism. The longer-lasting, more conservative Surrealism would overshadow Dada for decades to come.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Preamble	p. 1
Dada on Trial	p. 1
Dada in the World	p. 4
Genesis of the Dada spirit
Zurich
New York
Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover)
Other countries
Dada in Paris	p. 37
Paris at War and the ôNew Spiritö	p. 41
The state of mind in Paris in 1915
The war camp
The ôbetrayalö of the intellectuals
Birth of the ôNew Spiritö
Guillaume Apollinaire
SIC
Nord-Sud
Rumors about Dada
The cinema
The ambivalence of modernism
The ôThree Musketeersö	p. 55
Andre Breton
Jacques Vache
Louis Aragon
Philippe Soupault
Theodore Fraenkel
Poetic confrontation with Tristan Tzara
Apollinaire and Dada
Anthologie Dada (Dada 4-5)
Litterature	p. 73
Preliminaries: from Le Negre to Carte blanche
First issue: publication, contributors, reception
Paul Eluard enters the picture
Early Skirmishes	p. 81
Picabia settles in Paris
Thoughts without Language
Connection with Andre Breton
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Marcel Duchamp in Paris
Salon dÆautomne 1919
391 reappears
Litterature follows its course
öWhy do you write?ö
The Magnetic Fields	p. 89
Dada's Beginnings	p. 95
Dadaist forerunners: Paul Guillaume, Pierre Albert-Birot, Paul Dermee, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet
The ôDada Manifesto 1918ö
Tzara's renown
Transfer of the Vache myth
Tristan Tzara arrives in Paris
Meeting with the Litterature group
Kickoff: first ôFriday of Litteratureö
Bulletin Dada
The Main Performances (I)	p. 109
Grand Palais
Club du faubourg
Universite populaire du faubourg Saint- Antoine
The Section dÆor
The Main Performances (II)	p. 117
Geneva
Maison de lÆOEuvre
Au Sans Pareil
Exhibitions by Picabia and Ribemont-Dessaignes
The Life of the Movement	p. 125
The ôDada Festival,ö Salle Gaveau
The Certa
Supporting roles: Erik Satie, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Rene Crevel, Robert Desnos, Roger Vitrac, Jacques Baron
The Everling salon: Pierre de Massot, Serge Charchoune, Benjamin Peret, Jean Cocteau
Struggles for influence
First respite
Dada and the NRF	p. 141
Anonymous letters
Dada (Gide)
For Dada (Breton)
Gratitude to Dada (Riviere)
Dada Publications: 1920	p. 149
The journals: 391, Cannibale, Dadaphone (Dada 7), Proverbe, Z, Projecteur
The books: Rose des vents, Cinema calendrier..., Unique Eunuch, Jesus Christ Rastaquouere
The tags
The 1921 ôRevivalö	p. 161
Summer 1920
Failure of a Belgian expedition
Tribulations of Jesus Christ Rastaquouere
Francis Picabia by Marie de La Hire
Picabia's exhibition at Povolovsky's
Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love
Dada Lifts Up Everything
Marinetti and tactilism
Revival of Parade
Dada and the Terror
The ôGreat Dada Seasonö	p. 175
Dada grapples with Dada
Visit to Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
The Max Ernst exhibition
The ôBarres Trialö	p. 185
Picabia Splits up With Dada	p. 195
Around A ôDada Salonö	p. 201
öBruitist concertö
Wedding on the Eiffel Tower
Dada exhibition
Duchamp's abstention
Dada evening
Jacques Hebertot cracks down
Quarrels and Squabbles (Summer- Autumn 1921)	p. 209
Summer 1921
Tyrolean vacations
Dada au grand air
Pilhaou-Thibaou
Funny Guy
Tabu
New Picabia scandal at the Salon dÆautomne: Hot Eyes
The Cacodylic Eye
Battling with Van Dongen
Dada Gets Disciples	p. 217
Man Ray in Paris
The ôCacodylic New Year's Eveö
Russian Dadaism in Montparnasse
Ilia Zdanevich and the ô41st Degreeö
Serge Charchoune and the Cafe Cameleon
Dada Publications: 1921	p. 223
From group to individual
The journals: Litterature, 391, Pilhaou-Thibaou, Proverbe nº 6, Dadaglobe
The novel: Anicet
Theater: The Emperor of China, The Mute Canary
Poetry: The Necessities of Life and the Consequences of Dreams, The Passenger aboard the Transatlantic Liner
The ôCongress of Parisö	p. 233
Dada's Decline: Publications of 1922	p. 255
New series of Litterature
A new wind
Words make love: Duchamp-Desnos
Aventure
Des
The Little Review
Repetitions
Westwego
De Mallarme a ô391ö
Around Dada	p. 269
Tyrol 1922
Weimar constructivist congress
Picabia's evolution
Exhibition and conference in Barcelona
Locus Solus
The ôsleep sessionsö
Two interviews with Roger Vitrac
öSoiree du coeur a barbeö
Legal paper
Tzara returns to literature
Dada and its Audience	p. 285
Conclusion?	p. 301
Dada and surrealism
I. Ambiguity
II. From coexistence to divorce
The Duchampian gnosis: a certain smile...
A dialectic of destruction
Marxism, Dada, and surrealism, or ôAt the time when the surrealists were right...ö
The Dada nebula
Appendix	p. 331
Correspondence between Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara	p. 332
Correspondence between Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia	p. 381
Correspondence between Andre Breton and Francis Picabia	p. 423
Correspondence and Various Texts	p. 459
Notes	p. 513
Bibliography	p. 625
Index of Names	p. 689
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