Dada
Zürich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
ed. by Leah Dickerman ; with essays by Brigid Doherty, Dorothea Dietrich, Sabine T. Kriebel ...[et al.]

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Editor(s)

Leah Dickerman

Publication

Washington : National Gallery of Art, 2005

Scope

520 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.

ISBN

9781933045207

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This catalogue presents the hybrid forms of Dada art through an examination of city centers where Dada emerged: Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, New York and Paris. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zurich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. Born in the heart of Europe in the midst of World War I, Dada displayed a raucous skepticism about accepted values. Its embrace of new materials, of collage and assemblage techniques, of the designation of manufactured objects as art objects as well as its interest in performance, sound poetry and manifestos fundamentally shaped the terms of modern art practice and created an abiding legacy for postwar art.

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Person as subject

Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber, Tristan Tzara, … [et al.]

Keywords

art history , various , 20th cent. , dada

Location

Cabinet 9 - 1: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical references, biographies and Index.