{"product_id":"dada-presentism-9780804794244","title":"Dada Presentism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than exploring the Dada movement from the usual perspective of its strategies of shock and opposition, this book gives us a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art therein.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With the potential to nudge Dada studies in another direction altogether, this book prizes apart the philosophical and political dimensions of time and history precisely at the moment where they come radically into question. Offering a rich perspective from which to assess not only Dada, but also other modernist enterprises, it is a brisk, revivifying breath of fresh air.\"—Sabine Kriebel, University College, Cork\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegantly written, thorough, and unlike any other study of Dada, this essay manages to succinctly point out the uniqueness and importance of the movement. It will become a key text in twentieth-century history of art.\"—Rudolf Kuenzli, The University of Iowa\u003cbr\u003e\"Maria Stavrinaki's lively and subtle investigation recaptures the radicalism of the Dada movement: its championing of the present and presentism at a time when Europe was in utter disarray, buffeted between regret for the past and appeals to a revolutionary future. This incisive book further serves as a useful incitement to thought, for behind the presentism of the 1920s lies that of our societies today.\"—François Hartog, author of \u003ci\u003eRegimes of Historicity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable meditation on the meta-historical significance of Dada.\"—Maria Gough, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\"According to a wise old saying, 'inside every fat book there is a thin article struggling to get out'. Its truth is confirmed by this remarkable and authoritative essay\"—Richard Sheppard , \u003ci\u003eJournal of European Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stavrinaki presents a rather lucid reflection on Dada history and the role of art within it via the Berlin-based Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their early modern experience of time...Insofar as the deliberate obtuseness of 'the present' is the whole point of the book, I was delighted to have uncovered some germane connective material here applicable to our present, our own now.\"—Joseph Nechvatal, \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI: Posthistory and Prehistory\u003cbr\u003e  II: The Present as Reproducible Time\u003cbr\u003e  III: Art's Efficacy or Dada's Use-Value\u003cbr\u003e  IV: The Moment of Decision: The Future-from-Now\u003cbr\u003e  V: The Paradigm of Immaculate Conception: Between Fiction and History\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405622878551,"sku":"9780804794244","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804794244.jpg?v=1730493033","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dada-presentism-9780804794244","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}