Dada

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

• 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, 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)

• Tristan Tzara, Sept manifestes dada, ills. Francis Picabia, Paris: Éditons du diorama Jean Budry & Co., 1924, 97 pp, KHZ; repr. in Lampisteries, précédées des Sept manifestes Dada, ills. Francis Picabia, Paris: Pauvert, 1963, 148 pp. Manifestos written 1916-1924. (French)
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Collective publications

• 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)
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Novels

• Hugo Ball, Flametti, oder, Vom Dandysmus der Armen. Roman, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1918, 224 pp, KHZ, IDA, IDA. (German)
  • Flametti or the Dandyism of the Poor, trans. Catherine Schelbert, intro. Marc Dachy, Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2014, 169 pp. (English)
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• Richard Huelsenbeck, Verwandlungen: Novelle, Munich: Roland-Verlag Dr. Albert Mundt, 1918, 54 pp, IDA. (German)

• Emmy Hennings, Gefängnis, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1919. (German)
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• 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)
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• Richard Huelsenbeck, Doctor Billig am Ende: ein Roman, ills. George Grosz, Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1921, 128 pp, IDA. (German)
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Memoirs, diaries

• Richard Huelsenbeck, Dada siegt: eine Bilanz des Dadaismus, Berlin: Malik, Apr 1920, 40 pp, KHZ, IDA; repr. as Dada siegt! Bilanz und Erinnerung, Hamburg: Nautilus/Nemo Press, 1985, 61 pp, OL. (German)

• Richard Huelsenbeck, En avant Dada: eine Geschichte des Dadaismus, Hannover: Paul Steegemann, Aug 1920, 44 pp, KHZ, IDA, 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)
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• Emmy Hennings, Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch, Berlin: Erich Reiß Verlag, 1920, 326 pp, KHZ, IDA. Diary. (German)
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• Pierre Mille, Mémoires d'un Dada besogneux de l'armistice a 1925, Paris: G. Crès, 1921, 252 pp, KHZ. (French)

• 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)
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• 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)

• Man Ray, Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1963, 402 pp. Autobiography. (English)
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• 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)
  • 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, 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

• "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, [4], [5]. (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

• 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). [8]
• 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. [9] (German)

Literature

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)

• 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. [10] (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)

• 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, 1971-90, and since 2013. [11] (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, [12]. (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)
• Naomi Sawelson-Gorse (ed.), Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity, MIT Press, 1998, xviii+686 pp, ARG. Reviews: Belton (Women's Art J), Conley (Substance), Weinstein (Theatre Survey). (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)
• Leah Dickerman, Matthew S. Witkowsky (eds.), The Dada Seminars, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005. (English)
• Tom Sandqvist, Dada öst: rumänerna på Cabaret Voltaire, Lund: Signum, 2005, 368 pp. (Swedish)
  • Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, MIT Press, 2006. (English)
  • Dada Est: românii de la Cabaret Voltaire, trans. Cristina Deutsch, Bucharest: Institutul Cultural Român, 2010, 351+[8] pp. (Romanian)
• 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. [13] [14] (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. [15] (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. [16] (English)
• Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, 2015. (English)
• Paula K. Kamenish, Mamas of Dada: Women of the European Avant-Garde, University of South Carolina Press, 2015, xii+198 pp. Publisher. Review: Bultman (symploke). (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. [17] [18] (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. [19] (English)

• http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=dada

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.
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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.