Dada

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Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919. Rectified ready-made: pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. 19.7 x 12.4 cm. Pompidou. NGA. versions.
Hannah Höch, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser Dada durch die letzte Weimarer Bierbauch-Kulturepoche Deutschlands [Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany], 1919. Collage. 114 x 90 cm. NG Berlin.
Raoul Hausmann, Mechanischer Kopf: der Geist unserer Zeit [Mechanical Head: The Spirit of Our Age], c1919. Hairdresser's wig-making dummy, crocodile wallet, ruler, pocket watch mechanism and case, bronze segment of old camera, typewriter cylinder, segment of measuring tape, collapsible cup, the number "22", nails, and bolt. 32,5 x 21 x 20 cm. Pompidou. NGA.
Dada 1916-1923, poster-catalogue for exhibition at Sidney Janis gallery, New York, 1953, by Marcel Duchamp. PDF.

Protagonists, journals, events[edit]

Publications[edit]

Journals[edit]

  • Dada, 8 numbers, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zürich (nos. 1-5) and Paris (nos. 6-8), Jul 1917-Sep 1921.

For further journals see Magazines section.

Manifestos[edit]

  • Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, "Ein literarisches Manifest" [12 Feb 1915], in Gerhard Schaub, "Dada avant la lettre. Ein unbekanntes 'Literarisches Manifest' von Hugo Ball und Richard Huelsenbeck", Hugo Ball Almanach 9/10 (1985/86), pp 63-180. (German)
  • Richard Huelsenbeck, "Erklärung" [Spring 1916]. Typescript. Read at the Cabaret Voltaire. (German)
  • Richard Huelsenbeck, "Erste Dadarede in Deutschland" [18 Feb 1918], in Dada Almanach, Berlin, 1920, pp 104-108. Read in the Saal der Neuen Sezession, Berlin. (German)
  • Tristan Tzara, "Manifeste Dada" [23 Mar 1918], Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zürich, Dec 1918, pp [2-4], HTML. Read in Zürich at the 'Zunfthaus zur Meise'. (French)
  • Francis Picabia, "Manifeste DADA" [5 Feb 1920]. Read at the Salon des Independants, Grand-Palais des Champs Elysées. (French)
  • Walter Serner, Letzte Lockerung. Manifest Dada, Hannover: Steegemann, 1920, 45 pp, KHZ, IA. Written 1918. (German)
    • "Last Loosening: A Dada Manifesto", trans. Malcolm Green, in Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Walter Serner, Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fatakal: First Texts of German Dada, ed. Malcolm Green, London: Atlas Press, 1995. (English)
    • "Last Loosening: A Dada Manifesto", in Serner, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One, trans. Mark Kanak, Prague: Twisted Spoon, 2018. [1] (English)

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Collective publications[edit]

  • Richard Huelsenbeck (ed.), Dada Almanach, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1920, 159+[8] pp, PDF (hi-res), KHZ, IDL, IDA; repr., New York: Something Else Press, 1966, 159 pp. [2] (German),(French)
    • The Dada Almanac, ed. Malcolm Green, trans. Malcolm Green et al., London: Atlas Press, 1993, xv+174 pp; 2nd ed., 1998, xv+174 pp. (English)
    • more translations

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Novels[edit]

  • Hugo Ball, Tenderenda der Phantast. Roman [1914-1920], Zürich: Arche, 1967, 135 pp; repr., eds. Raimund Meyer and Julian Schütt, Innsbruck: Haymon, 1999; new ed., ed. & afterw. Klaus Detjen, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015. [3] (German)
    • Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast, intro., ed. & notes Jeffrey T. Schnapp, trans. Jonathan Hammer, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, x+134 pp. (English)
    • more translations

Memoirs, diaries[edit]

  • Hugo Ball, Die Flucht aus der Zeit, Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1927, 330 pp, KHZ; new ed., forew. Herman Hesse, Munich: Kösel & F. Pustet, 1931, 330 pp; new ed., forew. Emmy Ball-Hennings, Luzern: J. Stocker, 1946, xxix+311 pp; new ed., ed., notes & afterw. Bernhard Echte, Zürich: Limmat, 1992, 365 pp. Diary. (German)
    • Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary, ed. & intro. John Elderfield, trans. Ann Raimes, New York: Viking Press, 1974, lxiv+254 pp; new ed., University of California Press, lxiv+274 pp. (English)
    • more translations
  • Emmy Ball-Hennings, Ruf und Echo: mein Leben mit Hugo Ball, Einsiedeln: Benziger, 1953, 291 pp; repr., afterw. Christian Döring, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1990, 313 pp. (German)
  • Raoul Hausmann, Courrier Dada, suivi d'une biobibliographie de l'auteur, Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1958, 157 pp; new ed. as Courrier Dada, Paris: Allia, 1992, 239 pp; new ed., Paris: Allia, 2004, 188 pp. (French)
  • Hans Richter, Dada – Kunst und Antikunst, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1964. (German)
    • Dada Art and Anti-Art, trans. David Britt, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965; repr., London: Thames & Hudson, 1997, 246 pp. (English)
  • Raoul Hausmann, Hyle. Ein Traumsein in Spanien, Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Heine, 1969, 196 pp; new ed., ed. & afterw. Adelheid Koch-Didier, Munich: Belleville, 2006. Autobiographical novel. (German)
    • Hyle: ser-sueño en España, trans. Nieves Trabanco, intro. Emiliano Fernández, Gijón: Trea, 1997, 283 pp. (Spanish)
    • Hylé. État de rêve en Espagne, trans. Hélène Thiérard, postf. Adelheid Koch-Didier, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2013, 385 pp. (French)
  • Germaine Everling, L'anneau de Saturne, Paris: Fayard, 1970, 204 pp. (French)
  • Hans Richter, Begegnungen von Dada bis Heute, 1973. (German)
  • Richard Huelsenbeck, Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, ed., intro. & notes Hans J. Kleinschmidt, trans. Joachim Neugroschel, New York: Viking Press, 1974, 202+[6] pp, OL; repr., University of California Press, 1991, 202 pp. (English)
  • Richard Huelsenbeck, Reise bis ans Ende der Freiheit: autobiographische Fragmente, eds. Ulrich Karthaus and Horst Krüger, Heidelberg: Schneider, 1984, 403 pp, OL. (German)

Anthologies[edit]

  • The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Robert Motherwell, 1951; 2nd ed., forew. Jack D. Flam, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981; repr., Harvard University Press, 1989, xlviii+413 pp. Excerpt, [4], [5]. (English)
  • 4 Dada Suicides, intro. Roger Conover, Terry Hale, and Paul Lenti, trans. Terry Hale, Paul Lenti, and Iain White, London: Atlas Press, 1995, 269 pp, ARG; repr., corr., 2003, 240 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • The DADA Reader: A Critical Anthology, ed. Dawn Ades, University of Chicago Press, 2006. (English)
  • Antologija srpskog dadaizma, ed. Predrag Todorović, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2014. [6] (Serbian)
  • DADA total. Manifeste, Aktionen, Texte, Bilder, eds. Jörgen Schäfer and Karl Riha, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2015, 384 pp. [7] (German)

Collections[edit]

Recent exhibitions and events (with online companions)[edit]

Resources[edit]

Documentary films[edit]

Literature[edit]

Alfred H. Barr Jr. (ed.), Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, 1936, Log, PDF; 2nd ed., 1937, PDF.
Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years, rev.ed., 1955/1968, Log, PDF.
Willy Verkauf (ed.), Dada: Monograph of a Movement, 1957, Log, PDF.
William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, 1968, PDF.
  • Adolf Knoblauch, Dada, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1919, 75 pp, KHZ. (German)
  • Dada 1916-1923, New York: Sidney Janis, 1953, [1] p. 97 x 64 cm. Poster-catalogue for an exhibition held 15 Apr-9 May 1953. With text by Tristan Tzara, translated by Marcel Duchamp. (English)
  • Michel Sanouillet, Dada à Paris. Histoire générale du Mouvement Dada (1915-1923), Paris: Pauvert, 1965, 648 pp; new ed., rev. Anne Sanouillet, Paris: Flammarion, 1993, 730 pp. (French)
    • Pari no Dada [パリのダダ], trans. Shin'ya Andō, Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1979, 442+48 pp; repr., Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2007. (Japanese)
    • Dada in Paris, rev. & exp. Anne Sanouillet, trans. Sharmila Ganguly, MIT Press, 2009, xii+705 pp. (English)
  • William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968, 251 pp, PDF, OL. Catalogue. (English)
  • Dada/Surrealism journal, ed. Timothy Shipe, 1971-1990, and since 2013. [11] (English)
  • C.W.E. Bigsby, Dada & Surrealism, London: Methuen, 1972, 91 pp; repr., London: Routledge, 2018. Review: Matthews (Symposium). (English)
  • Dawn Ades, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, intro. David Sylvester, London: Arts Council of Great Britain & Hayward Gallery, 1978, xi+475+16 pp. Catalogue. (English)
  • Stephen C. Foster, Rudolf E. Kuenzli (eds.), Dada Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt, Madison: Coda Press, and Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1979, 291 pp. Papers from the 1978 conference at the University of Iowa. (English)
  • Kunst in/als vraag: Negatie-integratie van Dada tot heden in België, ed. W. Van den Bussche, Ieper: Het Museum, 1981, 183 pp. Catalogue. Excerpts, [12]. (Dutch)
  • Stephen C. Foster (ed.), Dada/Dimensions, Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1985. (English)
  • Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), New York Dada, New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1986, 195 pp. (English)
  • Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film, New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987, 254 pp; MIT Press, 1996, 254 pp. (English)
  • Hanne Bergius, Das Lachen Dadas, Giessen: Anabas, 1989. (German)

Bibliography[edit]

  • New York Dada: Bibliography, by Rudolf E. Kuenzli and Timothy Shipe, 1985.
  • Exquisite Dada: A Comprehensive Bibliography, ed. Jörgen Schäfer, New York: G.K. Hall, 2005, xii+689 pp.
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