The Dada Seminars

by Dickerman, Leah

• ISBN13: 9781933045139
• ISBN10: 1933045132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art

Summary

This volume of 12 essays fills a broad gap in Modernist art history. Taken together, these case studies on artists and concepts present Dada as a coherent movement with a set of operating principles. Among the " tactics" elaborated are the hyperbolic mimicry of dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the modes of a new media culture and the marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory in a world traumatized by war. The Dada Seminarsdeveloped out of a series held by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, in advance of 2005's major traveling exhibition on international Dada. Contributors include George Baker, T.J. Demos, Leah Dickerman, Uwe Fleckner, Hal Foster, Amelia Jones, David Joselit, Marcella Lista, Helen Molesworth, Arnauld Pierre, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Elizabeth Cropper
Introduction	1	(6)
Leah Dickerman
Zurich Dada: The Aesthetics of Exile	7	(24)
T.J. Demos
Bad Dada (Evola)	31	(26)
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
The Real Demolished by Trenchant Objectivity: Carl Einstein and the Critical World View of Dada and ``Verism''	57	(26)
Uwe Fleckner
Raoul Hausmann's Optophone: ``Universal Language'' and the Intermedia	83	(20)
Marcella Lista
Merz and Memory: On Kurt Schwitters	103	(24)
Leah Dickerman
A Bashed Ego: Max Ernst in Cologne	127	(24)
Hal Foster
New York Dada: Beyond the Readymade	151	(22)
Amelia Jones
Rrose Selavy Goes Shopping	173	(18)
Helen Molesworth
Keep Smiling	191	(30)
George Baker
Dada's Diagrams	221	(20)
David Joselit
The ``Confrontation of Modern Values'': A Moral History of Dada in Paris	241	(28)
Arnauld Pierre
Pen Pals	269	(26)
Matthew S. Witkousky
Contributors	295	(4)
Index	299	(12)
Photographic Credits	311