The Dada Painters and Poets

by Motherwell, Robert; Karpel, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780674185005
• ISBN10: 0674185005
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-05-26
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others. Here in their own words and art, the principals of the movement create a composite picture of Dada--its convictions, antics, and spirit. First published in 1951, this treasure trove remains, as Jack Flam states in his foreword to the second edition, "the most comprehensive and important anthology of Dada writings in any language, and a fascinating and very readable book." It contains every major text on the Dada movement, including retrospective studies, personal memoirs, and prime examples. The illustrations range from photos of participants, in characteristic Dadaist attitudes, to facsimiles of their productions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface Introduction

List of Illustrations

Pre-Dada

Exhibition at the independents

Arthur Cravan and American Dada

Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments)

What I Am

The Day of a Musician

En Avant Dada: A History of Dadism

Dada Fragments

Merz

A Dada Personage Two Letters

Seven Dada Manifestoes

Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine

Dada Manifesto 1918

Proclamation without Pretension

Manifesto of mr. aa the anti-philosopher

Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love Supplement: how I became charming delightful and delicious Colonial Syllogism

History Of Dada

The Dada Spirit in Painting

Zurich and New York

Berlin (1918-22)

Cologne and Hanover

Dada in Paris

Three Dada Manifestoes

For Dada

Two Dada Manifestoes

After Dada

Marcel Duchamp

New York Dada

Dada Fragments From Zurich

Notes from a Dada Diary

monsieur duval vases with umbilical cords sketch for a landscape End of the World

Dada Fragments From Paris (Two Poems)

Project for a History of Contemporary Literature

Facsimile The Magnetic Fields

From the Annals of Dada

Zurich Chronicle

Collective Dada Manifesto

Lecture on Dada

Some Memories Of Pre-Dada: Picabia And Duchamp

La Pomme de Pins

Theo Van Doesburg and Dada

Dada Lives!

Dada X Y Z...

Dada Was Not A Farce

Sophie

The Dada Case

A Letter on Hugnet's "Dada Spirit in Painting,"

Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist

Sound-Rel 1919, and Birdlike 1946

Index

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