@article{749182,
      recid = {749182},
      author = {Rasula, Jed,},
      title = {Destruction was my Beatrice Dada and the unmaking of the  twentieth century / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (384 pages)},
      abstract = {"In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of  bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich,  Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three  readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a  monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New  Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâche into  the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of  these artists called the sessions "both buffoonery and a  requiem mass." Soon they would be known by a more evocative  name: Dada. In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist  scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of  the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how  this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and  then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally  reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to  understand today"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/749182},
}