The Dada Cyborg

by Biro, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780816636204
• ISBN10: 0816636206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-06
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes and fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.

Author Biography

Matthew Biro is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Cyborgs, Hybridity, and Identity	p. 1
Berlin Dada: Origins, Practices, and Institutions	p. 25
Hannah Hoch's Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Photomontage, Signification, and the Mass Media	p. 65
Raoul Hausmann's Revolutionary Media: Dada Performance, Photomontage, and the Cyborg	p. 105
The Militarized Cyborg: Soldier Portraits, War Cripples, and the Deconstruction of the Authoritarian Subject	p. 153
The New Woman as Cyborg: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Photomontages of Hannah Hoch	p. 199
Conclusion: Dada Cyborgs in the Twenty-first Century	p. 255
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 311
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