Research Catalog

Title

Dada bodies : between battlefield and fairground / Elza Adamowicz.

Author

Adamowicz, Elza,

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations (colour); 24 cm

Summary

This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Hoech, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

Subject

• Dadaism
• Dadaismus
• Human figure in art
• Körperbild
• Kunst
• Mensch Motiv

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-252) and index.

Contents

Introduction: spare parts -- Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance -- Shooting the classical body -- Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine -- Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque -- Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition -- Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis -- Fluid bodies, shifting identities -- Dada's Africa -- Limit-bodies -- Conclusion: exquisite corpses.

ISBN

• 9781526131140
• 9781526131164 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781526131157 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

99982909583

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries