Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

Hugo Ball

ISBN 10: 0520204409 / ISBN 13: 9780520204409

Published by University of California Press, 1996

About this Item

The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction. Translator(s): Raimes, Ann. Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. Num Pages: 324 pages, 14 b&w photographs, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; ACXD7; BG; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486. . 1996. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520204409
• ISBN 13: 9780520204409
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Hugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.

About the Author

Hugo Ball (1886-1927) was the author of Herman Hesse, His Life and Work and Flight Out of Time, his edited diaries from 1910-1921, published in German editions in 1927. John Elderfield is Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the author of books on Henri Matisse, Kurt Schwitters, and others.