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Dada

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 305 Collections and/or Records:

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales / Schwitters, Kurt ; Jack Zipes, translator., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49794-70849
Scope and Contents

Many of Schwitters's fairy tales were discovered after his death in England in 1948. many were in draft form. "Despite their roughness and incompleteness, they are incisive if not disturbing reflections of his life and times, and the incorporate radical notions of the fairy tale as an art form... Schwitter's innovations were based on his theory of Merz." Jack Zipes contributes an introductory essay "Kurt Schwitters, Politics, and the Merz Fairy Tale" and Irvine Peacock is the book illustrator. These fairy tales also are published in Schwitters "Das literarische Werk," a series held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Luna Park. No.2 / Marc Dachy, Martin Muller, editors ; Gysin B ; Dachy M ; Hoch H ; Steinitz K ; Schwitters K ; Hausmann R ; Hains R ; Stein G ; Thomson V ; Restany P ; Klein Y., 2004 - 2005

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Identifier: CC-46741-49471
Scope and Contents

The articles in this issue, for the most part, are translations of previously published pieces in other languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004 - 2005

Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York / Crotti J ; Duchamp M ; Picabia F ; Ray M ; Roche J ; DeZayas M ; Apollinaire G ; Schwitters K ; Watson S., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27598-28675
Scope and Contents In the words of David A. Ross, director of the Whitney Museum, "This exhibition proposes that as important as Dada was to the growth of American modernism, the ferment of New York played an equally critical role in the continuing evolution of Dada itself." He points out that even though Dada evolved in Zurich and Berlin, few immigrant notions were more quickly or deeply absorbed into American culture, because "American art, like America itself in the beginning of the century, was experiencing an analogous social, intellectual, and moral transformation, and the spirit and purpose of Dada provided a much needed catalyst." The Dada activity in New York centered around the Arensbergs, Duchamp, Picabia and Man Ray. When asked to define Dada, Man Ray echoed the words of Tristan Tzara and said that Dada was a state of mind. Unlike the artists in Europe, the Dadists in New York were driven by a conscious sense of irony, amusement, and genuine sense of humor. Selected chapters of this...
Dates: 1996

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905-1931 / Weisenfeld, Gennifer ; Tomoyoshi M., 2002

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Identifier: CC-43895-45999
Scope and Contents Mavo was a self-proclaimed avant-garde constellation of artists and writers collaborating in a dynamic and rebellious movement that not only shook up the art establishment, but also made an indelible imprint on the art criticism of the times. Mavo artists cast themselves as social critics, strategically fusing modernist aesthtics with leftist politics and serving as a central voice for cultural anarchism in intellectual debates...While their work interrogated issues of asethetics, subjectivity, and mimesis, Mavo artists principally championed the reintegration of art into the social (and political) practice of everyday life.Book Description (dust Jacket): The radical Japanese art group Mavo roared into new arenas and new art forms during the 1920s, with work ranging from performance art to painting, book illustration, and architectural projects. Hurling rocks through glass roofs and displaying their rejected works, Mavo artists held peripatetic protest exhibitions against the...
Dates: 2002