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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 Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: spare parts
2 Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance
3 Shooting the classical body
4 Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine
5 Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque
6 Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition
7 Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis
8 Fluid bodies, shifting identities
9 Dada’s Africa
10 Limit-bodies
11 Conclusion: exquisite corpses
Index

Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 11 March 2019
      ISBN-13 9781526131140
      978-1526131140
      ISBN-10 1526131145
      Also in:
      Art & Photography History of art Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

      Table of Contents

      1 Introduction: spare parts
      2 Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance
      3 Shooting the classical body
      4 Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine
      5 Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque
      6 Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition
      7 Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis
      8 Fluid bodies, shifting identities
      9 Dada’s Africa
      10 Limit-bodies
      11 Conclusion: exquisite corpses
      Index

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