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Book SynopsisThis rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada and the avant-garde. Through deeply researched case studies and employing novel theoretical approaches, the volume rewrites the history of Dada as a story of cultural and political hybridity, border-crossings, transitions, and transgressions, across political, class and gender lines. Dismantling prevailing notions of Dada as a “Western” movement, the contributors to this volume present East-Central Europe as the locus of Dada activity and techniques. The articles explore how artists from the region pre-figured Dada as well as actively “cannibalized”, that is, reabsorbed and further hybridized, a range of avant-garde techniques, thus challenging “Western” cultural hegemony.
Trade Review“Avant-Garde Critical Studies (AGCS) is not only since decades one of the leading academic platforms devoted to research in and reflection on the twentieth-century artistic avant-garde but also the oldest scholarly forum specifically devoted to artistic avant-gardism in the widest sense. […] The first eleven volumes [of AGCS] could for long only be found on bookshelves in libraries. These volumes have now been made available in digital form. They offer a monumental panorama of early avant-garde studies and may still serve today as major resource with fundamental contributions by eminent avant-garde scholars. […] The goal of the series, as set out in issue zero in 1987 by Fernand Drijkoningen, was – and still is today – to serve as a platform to transcend ‘traditional boundaries between disciplines and nationalities’ with ‘an “open” character’. In line with this ambition, the single volumes from the early years of the series all have a profound multifaceted character. Each volume combines essays on different artistic disciplines, be it literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, design, music, performance and film.” - Hubert van den Berg, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: “Dada Is more than Dada” Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina Denischenko, Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi Part 1:Topographies 1 An Exchange Point in a Network: Prague and Dada, 1918–1922 Jindrich Toman 2 Becoming Avant-Garde: Romanian Appropriations of Dada Techniques through East-Central European Networking Emanuel Modoc 3 Polish Responses to Dadaism: The Voices on Dada, Contacts and Interpretations Przemyslaw Strozek 4 The Dada Entr’acte of Dragan Aleksic Jasna Jovanov 5 Hungarian Dada: the Missing Link András Kappanyos Part 2: In/Exclusions 6 Céline Arnauld, the “Nomadic” Avant-Garde Writer: a Transnational Approach to Her Life and Work Iulia Dondorici 7 Two Mysterious “Mademoiselles”: Jeanne Rigaud and Maria Cantarelli A Multilingual Multi-Layered Dada Pun Unravelled? Hubert van den Berg 8 Dada as an Avant-Garde Movement and as Invective Károly Kókai 9 “Dada Is the Best Paying Concern of the Day”: Consumer Culture, Performativity, and the Avant-Garde in Romania Alexandra Chiriac Part 3: Performativities 10 Marcel Breuer and Dada Performance: Remade Readymade Self and Furniture Edit Tóth 11 Míra Holzbachová: Embodying the Avant-Garde Meghan Forbes 12 To Write with Dots or Not to Write at All? Dada Ideas in Polish Interwar Literature Michalina Kmiecik 13 Green Donkey Theatre: a Case Study on Theatrical Innovations in the Name of Dadaism Sára Bagdi and Judit Galácz Part 4: Trans(pos)itions 14 The Genesis of Dada: Futurist Influences in Germany, Romania and at the Cabaret Voltaire Günter Berghaus 15 Revolt and Authority: From Kassák to Erdély Dada in the Hungarian Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde Éva Forgács 16 Dadá, not Dáda: Moholy-Nagy in Berlin, 1920–1921 Oliver A. I. Botar 17 Words, Sounds, Images, Theories: the Authors of the Magazine IS in the Context of Dadaism Imre József Balázs 18 Self-Positioning in the International Avant-Garde: Kassák’s Strategic Use of Dada and Constructivism in the Book of New Artists Krisztina Zsófia Csaba Part 5: Hybridentities 19 Raoul Hausmann and the Welteislehre: Science and Identity Arndt Niebisch 20 Dada Lingua Franca: The Linguistic Fate of Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann Alexandru Bar and Michael White 21 Crossovers and Transgressions: Dada as a Life Strategy in Emil Szittya’s Works Magdolna Gucsa 22 Android, Cyborg, Dandy and Woman Representations of the Body in the Decadent and Dada Imaginations: The Hungarian and International Contexts Györgyi Földes 23 The New Man, According to Sándor Bortnyik Merse Pál Szeredi Index
