Dada in Paris / Michel Sanouillet ; revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet ; [editorial consultant, Michèle Humbert] ; translated by Sharmila Ganguly.

Main entry:

Sanouillet, Michel.

Title & Author:

Dada in Paris / Michel Sanouillet ; revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet ; [editorial consultant, Michèle Humbert] ; translated by Sharmila Ganguly.

Edition:

1st English-language ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.

Description:

xii, 705 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-688) and index.
Paris at war and the "new spirit" -- The "three musketeers" -- Litterature -- Early skirmishes -- The magnetic fields -- Dada's beginnings -- The main performances (I) -- The main performances (II) -- The life of the movement -- Dad and the NRF -- Dada publications: 1920 -- The 1921 "revival" -- The "great Dada season" -- The "Barres trial" -- Picabia splits up with Dada -- Around a "Dada salon" -- Quarrels and squabbles (summer-autumn 1921) -- Dada gets disciples -- Dada publications: 1921 -- The "congress of Paris" -- Dada's decline: publications of 1922 -- Around Dada -- Dada and its audience -- Conclusion?
Translated from the French.

Summary:

This volume examines the Dada art movement, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde's riotous adolescence, with a timeline that begins with Tzara and Picabia and stretches to include Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, and Paul Éluard. The author (one of the foremost specialists of the Dada movement) describes the pre-Dada Parisian era, the connection made with Zurich Dada, and Parisian Dada projects and their reception. Finally, by 1923, Dada-according-to-Tzara gave way to Dada-according-to-Breton -- which a few months later, under tumultuous circumstances, took on the new name of Surrealism. The longer-lasting, more conservative Surrealism would overshadow Dada for decades to come.

ISBN:

9780262013031 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262013037 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262518215
026251821X

Subject:

Dadaism France Paris.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) France Paris History 20th century.
Dadaïsme France Paris.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Dadaism
France Paris

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Sanouillet, Anne, editor.
Ganguly, Sharmila, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277696
Call No.: BIB 212629
Status: Available

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