Dada
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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.
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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.
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Dada 1916-1923, poster-catalogue for exhibition at Sidney Janis gallery, New York, 1953, by Marcel Duchamp. PDF.
Contents
Protagonists, journals, events
- 391
- Action
- Céline Arnauld
- Hans Arp
- Johannes Baader
- Johannes Theodor Baargeld
- Hugo Ball
- The Blindman
- Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
- Ça ira
- Le Coeur à barbe
- Congress of the Constructivists and Dadaists
- Arthur Cravan
- Jean Crotti
- Dada (journal)
- Dada Jazz
- Dada Tank
- Dada-Jok
- Theo van Doesburg
- Marcel Duchamp
- Suzanne Duchamp
- Max Ernst
- Germaine Everling
- Edgar Firn
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
- György Gerő
- George Grosz
- Raoul Hausmann
- John Heartfield
- Emmy Hennings
- Hannah Höch
- Richard Huelsenbeck
- Georges Hugnet
- Marcel Janco
- MAVO
- Mécano
- Merz
- Tomoyoshi Murayama
- New York Dada
- Nord-Sud
- Clément Pansaers
- Benjamin Péret
- Perevoz Dada
- Francis Picabia
- Proverbe
- Man Ray
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
- Hans Richter
- Juliette Roche
- Kurt Schwitters
- Walter Serner
- Sergei Sharshun
- Timothy Shipe
- Philippe Soupault
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Tristan Tzara
- Unu
- Beatrice Wood
- Ilya Zdanevich
- Zenit
Publications
Journals
- 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
- 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)
- Hugo Ball, "Eröffnungs-Manifest, 1. Dada-Abend" [14 Jul 1916]. Read at the first Dada-soirée, Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zürich. (German)
- trans., "Le Manifeste DaDa". (French)
- Tristan Tzara, "Le Manifeste de M. Antipyrine" [14 Jul 1916], Littérature 2:13 (May 1920), pp 16-17, HTML. Read at the first Dada-soirée, Zunfthaus zur Waag, Zürich. (French)
- trans., "Dada Manifesto". (English)
- 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)
- Raoul Hausmann, "Manifest von der Gesetzmäßigkeit des Lautes". First published as "Schulze philosophiert", in Der blutige Ernst 6 (1919); repr. in Mécano 1 (1922). (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)
- Tristan Tzara, "Le Manifeste de M. Aa l’Antiphilosophe" [5 Feb 1920], Littérature 2:13 (May 1920), pp 22-23, HTML. Read at the Salon des Independants, Grand-Palais des Champs Elysées. (French)
- Walter Serner, Letzte Lockerung. manifest dada, Hannover: Steegemann, 1920, 45 pp. 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)
- Tristan Tzara, Sept manifestes dada, illustr. Francis Picabia, Paris: J. Baudry, 1924, 97 pp; repr. as Lampisteries, précédées des Sept manifestes dada, Paris: Pauvert, 1963, 148 pp. Excerpt. Manifestos written 1916-1924. (French)
Collective publications
- Richard Huelsenbeck (ed.), Dada Almanach, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1920, 159 pp, PDF (hi-res), KHZ, IDA. [2] (German),(French)
- Almanakh dada, Moscow: Gileya, 2000. (Russian)
Novels
- Hugo Ball, Flametti, oder, Vom Dandysmus der Armen. Roman, Berlin: Reiss, 1918. (German)
- "Tenderenda the Fantast", 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)
- Richard Huelsenbeck, Verwandlungen: Novelle, Munich: Roland, 1918, 54 pp. (German)
- Richard Huelsenbeck, Doctor Billig am Ende: ein Roman, ills. George Grosz, Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1921, 128 pp. (German)
Memoirs, diaries
- Richard Huelsenbeck, Dada siegt: eine Bilanz des Dadaismus, Berlin: Malik, Apr 1920, 40 pp, KHZ. (German)
- Richard Huelsenbeck, En avant Dada: eine Geschichte des Dadaismus, Hannover: Paul Steegemann, Aug 1920, 44 pp, KHZ, IA. (German)
- "En Avant Dada: A History of Dadaism", trans. Ralph Manheim, in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Robert Motherwell, Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1981, pp 21-48. (English)
- Hugo Ball, Die Flucht aus der Zeit, Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1927, 331 pp; 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
- 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)
- Man Ray, Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1963, 402 pp. Autobiography. (English)
- 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)
- Hans Richter, Begegnungen von Dada bis Heute, 1973. (German)
- Encounters from Dada till Today, trans. Christopher Middleton, Los Angeles: LACMA, and Munich: Prestel, 2013, 140 pp. (English)
- Richard Huelsenbeck, Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, Viking Press, 1974, 202 pp, OL; repr., University of California Press, 1991. (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
- "Dada panoráma", ed. Ludvík Kundera, Světová literatura, Prague, 1966, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6. Serial publication. (Czech)
- "Dada, Surrealism and Scuola metafisica: The Irrational and the Dream", ch. 7 in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, ed. Herschel Browning Chipp, University of California Press, 1968, pp 366-396. (English)
- 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, [3], [4]. (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. [5] (Serbian)
- DADA total. Manifeste, Aktionen, Texte, Bilder, eds. Jörgen Schäfer and Karl Riha, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2015, 384 pp. [6] (German)
Collections
- Dada Berlin Online, Berlinische Galerie, launched 2015.
- Dada Digital, Kunsthaus Zurich, launched 2016.
- Dada Collection at Iowa Digital Library, U Iowa.
- International Dada Archive, U Iowa.
Recent exhibitions and events (with online companions)
- Dada, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006. Later shown at MoMA (2006). [7]
- Dada at MoMA, 2008.
- Dada 100 Zurich 2016.
- Dadaglobe Reconstructed, 2016 exhibition at MoMA reuniting 100+ works created for Dadaglobe, Tristan Tzara's planned but unrealized 1921 anthology. First shown at Kunsthaus Zurich (2016). Works on Artsy.
Resources
- Dada on UbuWeb
- Dada Companion
- http://archives-dada.tumblr.com/
- Dada Data, a project by Anita Hugi and David Dufresne, 2016.
Documentary films
- Deutschland Dada, dir. Helmut Herbst, 1969, 61 min. [8] (German)
Literature
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William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, 1968, PDF.
- Alfred H. Barr Jr. (ed.), Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936, 248 pp; 2nd ed., rev. & enl., 1937, 294 pp, PDF. Catalogue for the exhibition held 7 Dec 1936-17 Jan 1937. [9] (English)
- 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)
- Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I, 1955; rev.ed., Vintage Books, 1968, 397 pp. (English)
- Willy Verkauf (ed.), Dada: Monograph of a Movement / Monographie einer Bewegung / Monographie d'un Mouvement, Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli, 1957, 188 pp; London: Tiranti, 1957, 188 pp; New York: G. Wittenborn, 1957, 188 pp. (English)/(German)/(French)
- 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, 1971-90, and since 2013. [10] (English)
- C.W.E. Bigsby, Dada & Surrealism, London: Methuen, 1972, 91 pp; repr., London: Routledge, 2018. Review: Matthews (Symposium). (English)
- Jindřich Chalupecký, O dada, surrealismu a českém umění, O. Hamera (samizdat), [1976], 33 pp, IA; repr. in Jazzpetit 2 (1980); repr. in Chalupecký, Cestou necestou, 1999, pp 194-228. (Czech)
- Dawn Ades, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, intro. David Sylvester, London: Arts Council of Great Britain & Hayward Gallery, 1978, xi+475+16 pp. Catalogue. (English)
- RoseLee Goldberg, "Dada Performance: 'The Idea of Art and the Idea of Life'", ch 3 in Goldberg, Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979, pp 34-48. (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, [11]. (Dutch)
- John D. Erickson, Dada: Performance, Poetry, and Art, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984, 152 pp. (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)
- Annabelle Winograd, Dada and Surrealist Performance, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, xviii+288 pp. (English)
- Gerald Janacek, Toshiharu Omuka (ed.), The Eastern Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Central Europe and Japan, New York: G.K. Hall, 1998, xix+251 pp. (English)
- Hubert van den Berg, Avantgarde und Anarchismus. Dada in Zürich und Berlin, C. Winter, 1999. (German)
- Hanne Bergius, Montage und Metamechanik: Dada Berlin, Berlin: Gebrueder Mann, 2000. (German)
- Hubert F. van den Berg, The Import of Nothing. How Dada Came, Saw and Vanished in the Low Countries (1915-1929), Farmington Hills, MI: G.K. Hall, 2002. (English)
- October 105: "Dada", MIT Press, Summer 2003. (German)
- Amelia Jones, Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada, MIT Press, 2004, 344 pp. (English)
- Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, ed. Leah Dickerman, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, 536 pp. Catalogue. (English)
- Tom Sandqvist, Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, 2006. (English)
- Dafydd Jones (ed.), Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde, Rodopi, 2006. (English)
- Dada in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, eds. Anne Umland and Adrian Sudhalter, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. [12] [13] (English)
- Ruth Hemus, Dada's Women, Yale University Press, 2009, 250 pp. (English)
- Matthew Biro, The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 318 pp. (English)
- Janine Mileaf, Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade, University Press of New England, 2010. [14] (English)
- Elza Adamowicz, Eric Robertson (eds.), Dada and Beyond, 1: Dada Discourses, Rodopi, 2011, ARG. (English)
- Van dada tot surrealisme: Joodse avant-garde kunstenaars uit Roemenië, 1910-1938 / From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, eds. Radu Stern and Edward van Voolen, Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum, 2011, 159 pp. Catalogue. (Dutch)/(English)
- Elza Adamowicz, Eric Robertson (eds.), Dada and Beyond, 2: Dada and its Legacies, Rodopi, 2012. (English)
- Colby Chamberlain, "Dada on Trial", Cabinet 45, New York, Spring 2012, pp 24-29.
- R. Bruce Elder, Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, x+765 pp. (English)
- Michael White, Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War, Yale University Press, 2013. (English)
- Dorothy Rowe, After Dada: Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-garde, Manchester Unversity Press, 2013, 240 pp. [15] (English)
- Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, 2015. (English)
- Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History, trans. Daniela Ginsburg, Stanford University Press, 2016, 107 pp. Review: Nechvatal (Hyperallergic). (English)
- Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.), Dadaglobe Reconstructed, Zürich: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2016, 304 pp. [16] [17] (English)
- David Hopkins (ed.), A Companion to Dada and Surrealism, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. (English)
- Martin Mittelmeier, Dada. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte, Siedler, 2016, 272 pp. (German)
- Russian Dada 1914-1924, eds. Margarita Tupitsyn and Museo Reina Sofía Editorial Activities, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and MIT Press, 2018, 352 pp. Catalogue. (English)
- Dadá ruso 1914-1924, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018, 352 pp. (Spanish)
- Elza Adamowicz, Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground, Manchester University Press, 2019, ARG. (English)
- Trevor Stark, Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé, MIT Press (October Books), 2020, 440 pp. [18] (English)
Bibliography
- 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.
- more
Links
- Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (1916-1930), international conference, Kassák Museum, Budapest, 13-15 Oct 2016. Organised by the Kassák Museum and the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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