Dada 1916 in theory : : practices of critical resistance / / Dafydd W. Jones.

"Dada formed in 1916 in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, at the core of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that art history routinely exhau...

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Superior document:Value : Art : Politics ; [10]
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Place / Publishing House:Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Value, art, politics ; 10.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Series numbering from publisher's Web site.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : against the 'infamous thing'
  • Dada's radical negation : the declamators and poets of noise
  • Becoming the Dada body : masks, dance and mime
  • A disintegrating culture : Dada violence and degradation
  • Dadaist disgust : ideology theory and the manifesto writings
  • Hans Arp : resistance and the philosophy of virtual creation
  • 'L'amiral cherche une maison a louer' : the counterpoint and counterpolitics of language
  • The rude product of luxury : Dada laughter
  • Conclusion : permanent Dada
  • Appendix: Zurich Dada chronology.