Title
Dada 1916 in theory : practices of critical resistance / Dafydd W. Jones.
ISBN
9781781380208
1781380201
9781781386002 (electronic book)
Published
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
NX456.5.D3 J66 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.04
Summary
"Dada formed in 1916 in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, at the core of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that art history routinely exhausts by its characterisation as a 'revolutionary movement' of anarchic cultural dissent, in order to contest perpetuated assumptions that underlie the popular Dada myths. Dada is difficult, and the response to Dada is not easy. What emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly rational bases for the non-sense that was pitted against a self-proclaimed civilisation, critically and implicitly to propose that what coursed in 1916 continues as vitally today. Given as art-historically identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures, this book proposes not a history of Dada in Zurich but theoretical engagements with the emergencies of 1916-19, from laughter to 'lautgedichte', masks to manifestos, chance to chiasmata, rounding on the permanent Dada that drives against the closure of culture"--Back cover.
Note
Series numbering from publisher's Web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Value, art, politics ; 10.
Introduction : against the 'infamous thing'
Dada's radical negation : the declamators and poets of noise
Becoming the Dada body : masks, dance and mime
A disintegrating culture : Dada violence and degradation
Dadaist disgust : ideology theory and the manifesto writings
Hans Arp : resistance and the philosophy of virtual creation
'L'amiral cherche une maison à louer' : the counterpoint and counterpolitics of language
The rude product of luxury : Dada laughter
Conclusion : permanent Dada
Appendix: Zurich Dada chronology.
