Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Description
The authoritative volume on the Dada movement, from Berlin to New York
Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the primary city centers where this shifting, quintessentially avant garde movement emerged, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris features the work of 40 key artists, both infamous and lesser-known, including Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, André Breton, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara and Kurt Schwitters, to name just a few, in media spanning painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work. Dynamically designed with an uncommon intelligence suited to the complexity of the movement itself, it contains hundreds of reproductions of works which, until the major traveling exhibition of 2005 and 2006 for which this book was originally produced, had for the most part never been seen in one place together. Documentary images, topical essays and an invaluable illustrated chronology of the movement make this volume uniquely essential, along with witty chronicles of events in each city center, a selected bibliography and biographies of each artist, accompanied by Dada-era photographs.Product Details
Price
$29.95
$27.85
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Publish Date
March 01, 2008
Pages
519
Dimensions
8.6 X 12.1 X 1.3 inches | 6.06 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780894683138
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Brigid Doherty is Associate Professor of German and of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was a painter, collage-maker, typographer, sculptor, graphic designer, writer, and performer: one of the world's leading experimental artists.
Francis Picabia (1879-1953), painter and poet, was a leading figure in the Dada movement.