Main entry:

Sandqvist, Tom.

Title & Author:

Dada East : the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire / Tom Sandqvist.

Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006.

Description:

433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
2 In Romania and Switzerland 15 -- 3 In Central and Eastern Europe 45 -- 4 Marcel Iancu Becomes Marcel Janco 65 -- 5 Little Paris of the Balkans 101 -- 6 Samuel Rosenstock Becomes Tristan Tzara 123 -- 7 The Symbolist and Dadaist from Moinesti 141 -- 8 Aron Sigalu Becomes Arthur Segal 171 -- 9 Symbolists, Absurdists, and Futurists 195 -- 10 In the Romanian Village 247 -- 11 In Yiddishland 271 -- 12 Ex Oriente Dada 289 -- 13 Back in Bucharest 339.

Summary:

"In Dada East Tom Sandqvist shows that Dada did not spring full-grown from a Zurich literary salon but grew out of an already vibrant artistic tradition in Eastern Europe - particularly Romania - that was transposed to Switzerland when a group of Romanian modernists settled in Zurich. Bucharest and other cities in Romania had been the scene of Dada-like poetry, prose, and spectacle in the years before World War I. One of the leading lights was Tristan Tzara, who begn his career in avant-garde literature at fifteen when he cofounded the magazine Simbolul.
Tzara - who himself coined the term "Dada," inspired by an obscure connection of his birthday to an Orthodox saint - was at the Cabaret Voltaire that night, along with fellow Romanians Marcel, Jules, and Georges Janco and Arthur Segal. It's not a coincidence, Sandqvist argues, that so many of the first dadaist group was Romanians. Sandqvist traces the artistic and personal transformations that took place in the "little Paris of the Balkans" before they took center stage elsewhere, finding sources as varied as symbolism, futurism, and folklore. He points to a connection between Romanian modernists and the Eastern European Yiddish tradition; Tzara, the Janco brothers, and Segal all grew up within Jewish culture and traditions."
"For years, the communist authorities in Romania disowned and disavowed Romania's avant-garde movements. Now, as archives and libraries are opening to Western scholars, Tom Sandqvist tells the secret history of Dada's Romanian roots."--Jacket.

Resources:
ebrary

ISBN:

0262195070
9780262195072

Subject:

Janco, Marcel Dadaismus Zürich Geschichte 1914-1920.
Tzara, Tristan Dadaismus Zürich Geschichte 1916-1920.
Segal, Arthur (Künstler) Dadaismus Zürich Geschichte 1916-1920.
Arts, Romanian 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Romania History 20th century.
Dadaism Romania.
Jewish artists Romania History 20th century.
Arts roumains 20e siècle.
Dadaïsme Roumanie.
Artistes juifs Roumanie Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts, Romanian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Dadaism
Jewish artists
Jewish artists Romania 20th century.
Avantgarde Rumänien Geschichte 1910-1947.
Dadaismus Zürich Rumänen Geschichte 1915-1920.
Dadaismus Zürich Janco, Marcel Geschichte 1914-1920.
Dadaismus Zürich Tzara, Tristan Geschichte 1916-1920.
Dadaismus Zürich Segal, Arthur (Künstler) Geschichte 1916-1920.
Romania
Rumänien Avantgarde Geschichte 1910-1947.
Rumänen Dadaismus Zürich Geschichte 1915-1920.
Zürich Dadaismus Rumänen Geschichte 1915-1920.
Zürich Dadaismus Janco, Marcel Geschichte 1914-1920.
Zürich Dadaismus Tzara, Tristan Geschichte 1916-1920.
Zürich Dadaismus Segal, Arthur (Künstler) Geschichte 1916-1920.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255575
Call No.: BIB 185803
Status: Available