Andre Breton: Dossier Dada

by Bezzola, Tobia

• ISBN13: 9783775717311
• ISBN10: 3775717315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-05
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

To the Dadaists, a successful provocation had little meaning in itself. Content was less important than audience reaction. And what really consummated a Dada event was indignant commentary in the press--so much so that some legendary works occurred exclusively in newspapers, which trustingly printed the Dadaists' invented stories. André Breton's recently discovered, unpublished album, Dossier Dada tracks his own publicity and press coverage, an intrinsic part of his work, from 1916 to 1924. Breton, a central figure in the Dada movement and later the driving force behind the Surrealists, included not only newspaper and magazine articles in which he was mentioned but all of his own original documentation for the events covered--invitations, posters and letters. At 12 by 15 inches across and about 8 inches thick, the album is, among its other distinctions, the largest known Dada collage. The more manageable 80 pages reprinted here have been chosen to present an almost complete chronicle of the public pieces and publications of the Dadaists in Paris.

Table of Contents

Erfundene Unglucksfalle, erfundene Verbrechen - Andre Breton und Dada Paris	p. 6
Invented Accidents, Invented Crimes-Andre Breton and Dada Paris	p. 12
Faux faits divers - Andre Breton et Dada Paris	p. 18
Dossier Dada	p. 25
Erlauterungen zu den Abbildungen	p. 112
Captions and notes on the illustrations	p. 120
Legendes et explications des illustrations	p. 133
Chronologie Andre Breton und Dada Paris	p. 146
Chronology Andre Breton and Dada Paris	p. 158
Chronologie Andre Breton et Dada Paris	p. 170
Ausgewahlte Literatur	p. 182
Selected bibliography	p. 182
References bibliographiques	p. 182
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