9780810992559 - Dada: the Revolt of Art Discoveries by Dachy, Marc (3 results)

Color and black-and-white images, accompanied by text and facsimiles. Translated from French. -- Softcover. Condition: very good (spine wrinkle; corner bump). ISBN 0810992558.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 128pp. Abrams Discoveries Series. "This work was produced with the help of Editions du Centre Pompidou to coincide with the exhibition DADA." Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "The word 'Dada' was chosen at random by a group of young artists and writers from a dictionary in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916; it soon came to represent a cause taken up by a diaspora of young utopian artists who were trying to counter the madness of the tumultuous years of the First World War. From 1915 to 1925 the movement became international--with spurs in Zurich, Berlin, New York, Barcelona, and Paris. The young artists and writers felt such an urgent need to revolt from the mechanisms of alienation that they reinvented combined languages of art and life. Dada poets, painters, photographers, and theorists--including Jean Arp, Johannes Baader, Hugo Ball, Arthur Cravan, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber, and Tristan Tzara--overturned aesthetic values, changed art, and redefined the relationship between individual and society. In this volume Marc Dachy sets out with passion to retrace the history of a relatively little-known movement that demanded works that were 'strong, honest, precise, and forever uncompromised.'" [back cover] Pages packed with copious illustrations & much fascinating information, documents, selected bibliography & indexes. Pristine & handy paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book.