Traces the life and career of the Franco-Swiss artist and shows examples of his collage, graphics, stone and bronze sculptures, and wood reliefs

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Examines the history of the Dada art movement and discusses artists such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd A comprehensive assessment of Dada in the as revolutionary cultural movement and the mass-media intervention Edited by Rudolf Kuenzli with unparalleled access to the International Dada in the Archive. of which he is Director. and its collection of 47.000 documents. Incorporates all aspects of Dada activity - visual arts. documented performance and writing in works by artists such as Max Ernst. Francis Picabia and Marcell Duchamp. Covers not only Western Europe and America but also Central and Eastern Europe and Japan. plus Neo-Dada worldwide. Now in paperback. Dada is an essential tool for students and anyone interested in art of the twentieth century.

“Dada places before action and above all: doubt. Dada doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada”. While these words give a somewhat chaotic definition for this movement, whose name was taken at random from a dictionary, they are in fact a faithful expression of the intentions of its members. In 1916, in the heart of a Germany bruised by World War I, artist regrouped around the poet Tristan Tzara and chose, in a spirit of hope and rebellion, to demythologise art. For the rigor of drawing and harmony of colours, artists such as Picabia, Arp and Man Ray substituted movement and random luck. The work of art was no longer, therefore, the result of a particular plan or the expression of concepts, but rather the result of a game of chance. “Dada is neither a dogma, nor a school, but more a constellation of individuals and free facets”. It is these free electrons that the author captures here so as to help the reader understand how art evolved to produce such works as Macerl Duchamp’s Fountain.

The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers.As a result of the unification of East and West Germany, these archives are now open. Hidden Holocaust, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt Uinversity, Berlin, demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared gol of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933, and provide proof of the systematic anti-gay campaigns, the methods used tjo justify discrimination, and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. A chilling but groud-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies.

Offering new critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of the Avant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassesses the movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy. Dada is often dismissed as an anti-art movement with a merely destructive theoretical impetus. French Existentialism is often condemned for its perceived quietist implications. However, closer analysis reveals a preoccupation with philosophy in the former and with art in the latter. Moreover, neither was nonsensical or meaningless; both reveal a rich individualist ethics aimed at the amelioration of the individual and society.  The first major comparative study of Dada and Existentialism, this text contributes new perspectives on Dada as movement, historical legacy, and field of study. Analysing Dada works through Existentialist literature across the themes of choice, alienation, responsibility, freedom and truth, the text posits that Dada and Existentialism both advocate the creation of a self that aims for authenticity through ambiguity.

Presents a reassessment of two key movements in modern art, and documents the contributions of major artists such as Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Duchamp, and Arp

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