Research Catalog

Title

Dada Africa : dialogue with the other / edited by Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer and Esther Tisa Francini.

Publication

• Zürich : Scheidegger und Spiess, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tisa Francini, Esther, 1972-
• Burmeister, Ralf
• Oberhofer, Michaela
• Museum Rietberg, host institution.
• Berlinische Galerie host institution.

Description

243 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Apart from the notorious brouhaha it caused on the European art scene of the time, the Dada movement aimed also at bringing to life non-European forms of artistic expression. The Dadaists understood shape, material, sound, and movement as equally valid means of cultural manifestation. This aspect of one of the 20th century's most influential artistic movements has been largely ignored so far by scholars and connoisseurs alike. Zürich's Museum Rietberg is home to a vast collection of African art gathered by Han Coray, a Zürich-based patron of the arts and collector who also staged Dada shows in his gallery in Zürich in 1917. Works by Dada artists also constitute a key part of Berlinische Galerie's permanent collection. Published in conjunction with exhibitions at the two museums in spring and summer 2016, this new book for the first time closely examines the Dadaists' exploration of non-European art and culture. Richly illustrated essays shed light on the cultural background of artifacts from Africa, Asia, and Oceania from an ethnological perspective. Other contributions investigate how Dada is reflected in the post-colonial discourse and understood in the context of culture transfer. The book features work by Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, Johannes Baader, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Erich Heckel, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Rudolf Schlichter, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tristan Tzara, as well as by unidentified artists from Africa, Oceania, and Asia.00Exhibition: Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland (18.03.-17.07.2016) / Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (05.08.-07.11.2016).

Subject

• Dadaism > Exhibitions
• Art, African > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museum Rietberg Zurich, 18th March-17th July, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 4th August-7th November 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : The Dada movement and non-Western art / Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer, Esther Tisa Francini -- Negro poem, sound poem? Everyone his own other / Hélène Thiérard -- "Our belief in a direct, magical, organic and creative art." Marcel Janco's masks and designs / Michaela Oberhofer -- "Abstract" and "cubist" mask dances : becoming involved with the culturally foreign in order to establish a new performance aesthetic / Mona De Weerdt -- Tumulte noir : the relationship between Dada and jazz / Jody Blake -- "Real Indians" : Sophie Taeuber-Arp's early work with regard to foreign cultures : following the trail / Walburga Krupp -- Indians and Katsinam : European avant-garde approaches to the indigenous cultures of North America / Peter Bolz -- Dialogues : texts from Peter Bolz, Nanina Guyer, Walburga Krupp, Axel Langer, François Mottas, Michaela Oberhofer, and Khanh Trinh --^
• "Hot spot of international energies" : the network of Dada artists, dealers, and collectors of African art / Esther Tisa Francini -- Dada reads ethnological sources : from knowledge of foreign art worlds to poetic understanding / Christian Kaufmann -- Inspiring chaos : Africa in ethnological museums in the early twentieth century / Nanina Guyer -- Unfamiliar sights, unexpected insights : on the history and reception of postcards from West Africa / Nanina Guyer -- Han Coray between Dada and Africa : a life for art / Michaela Oberhofer and Esther Tisa Francini -- The fate of the Han Coray collection and the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich / Alexis Malefakis -- Dialogues / texts from Ralf Burmeister, Walburga Krupp, and Esther Tisa Francini -- "Slashes through the thickest skin" : Dada Berlin between provocation and enlightenment / Ralf Burmeister -- "Drunk, I dance the feather-bright fantastic" : Carl Einstein and the African vitalism of Dadaist art / Uwe Fleckner --^
• Umba! Umba! Sounding the other, sounding the same / Michael White -- Ars una or the synthesis of the disparate : on Hannah Höch's collage series Aus einem etnographischen Museum / Ralf Burmeister -- Non-Western art in Dada photography and photomontage / Valentine Plisnier -- Dada South? Experimentation, radicalism and resistance : the anatomy of an exhibition in South Africa / Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith.

ISBN

• 9783858817792
• 3858817791

LCCN

^^2016370915

OCLC

• 946009619
• SCSB-11809846

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library