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Recent Books on Dada
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Michel SANOUILLET - Dada in Paris
Revised and expanded by Anne SANOUILLET
Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early twentieth-century avant-garde. This first English-language edition of Sanouillet's definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to the author's monumental history (based on years of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, André Breton, and Francis Picabia.
In the years after Dada's relatively brief Paris flowering in the 1920s, its members were often depicted as opportunistic youths, hedonistic jokers engrossed in a monstrous solipsism. Sanouillet was the first to see them instead as the most gifted and sensitive representatives of a generation, intent on finding a new way of living, writing, and feeling. Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde's riotous adolescence, with a timeline that begins with Tzara and Picabia and stretches to include Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, and Paul Éluard. Sanouillet describes the pre-Dada Parisian milieu, the connection made with Zurich Dada, and Parisian Dada projects and their reception. Finally, by 1923, Dada-according-to-Tzara gave way to Dada-according-to-Breton—which a few months later, under tumultuous circumstances, took on the new name of Surrealism. The longer-lasting, more conservative Surrealism would overshadow Dada for decades to come.
MIT Press
Revised edition (November 13, 2009)
Language: English
640 pages
Price: $26.37 from amazon.com
ISBN: 0262013037
Endorsements:
"More than forty years after its original publication, Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris remains the definitive study of the movement, in all its many manifestations, from its Zurich roots to its post-Surrealist heirs. The revised French edition, with its up-to-date apparatus and marvelous collection of letters between Breton, Tzara, and Picabia--now translated into English for the first time-- is as delightful as it is necessary. Reading Sanouillet in 2009, one comes to understand, all over again, what Dada was and what it meant for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."
—Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rapture
"Sanouillet's Dada in Paris is rigorous history while managing to be simultaneously voluptuous like a bath and thrilling like a tabloid. The enormous research and detailed scholarship of Dada's crucial Paris years unfolds here with a joie-de-vivre possible only by having an artist-in-residence, a feat that Sanouillet accomplishes with grace and verve. Short of having experienced 1921 in Paris at the side of Tristan Tzara, I can't think of better company than this dream-inducing thriller, document, and love fest. Like Dada itself, Sanouillet married incompatibles and created a text that resounds with the urgent concerns of the twenty-first century. Dada's timeless time beats are impossible to ignore now."
—Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
"An illuminating account of the ragged emergence and decline of Dada in the Parisian literary world, and the volatility of the human relationships behind the magazines 391, Dada, and Literature in particular."
—Clive Phillpot, freelance writer and curator and former art librarian
March 05, 2010 -- Book Alert / Dada in Paris
Dada in Paris by Michel Sanouillet, revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet, lst English-language edition, translated by Sharmila Ganguly, MIT Press '10, $39.95, 705 pages, ISBN #0262013037. Index, selected bibliography, source notes, unillustrated.
When Michel Sanouillet published Dada à Paris four decades ago, the scholarly community welcomed this ground-breaking work, which re-introduced an art and cultural movement of the 1920s that most had forgotten. Now the Dada movement -- or at least its spirit -- is back again with the republication of Sanouillet's work, adding previously unpublished correspondence among the major players of the movement -- Tristan Tzara, André Breton, and Francis Picabia, among others.
"These letters highlight the relationships and deep feelings these figures had for each other: the sparks rising from the collision of egos, the fateful (and all too late) recognition that what created Dada ultimately led to its demise," writes the author. "Paris in the 1920s gave birth to a literary movement that was brief, tumultuous, and spawned movements beyond the arrondissements -- Zurich, New York, Berlin. But Paris proved to be the heart of this movement."
Michel Sanouillet is a French art historian and one of the leading scholars of the Dada movement. He is Dean Emeritus of the University of Nice and founder and first president of the International Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism.
Steve Goddard's History Wire
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Tristan TZARA - Dada
A complete photocopy and critical apparatus of the review
published from 1916 to 1922 by Tristan Tzara.
Centre du XXe siècle
Volume I
ISBN 2-902311-17-6
134 pages
Volume II
ISBN 2-902311-19-2
282 pages
The two volumes (not sold separately): 40,00 euros
+ shipping charges
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Francis PICABIA : 391
Full reprint (with the author's permission) of the periodical
published from 1917 to 1924 by Francis Picabia.
Centre du XXe siècle
Vol. I : ISBN 2-902311-33-8
158 pages
Vol. II : ISBN 2-902311-34-6
286 pages
The two volumes (not sold separately): 40,00 euros +
shipping charges
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Helen ADKINS - Erwin Blumenfeld: I Was Nothing but a Berliner :
Dada Montages 1916 - 1933
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. In 1941, after being interned in a concentration camp, he left Europe for the United States, where he eventually became a citizen; during the 40s and 50s, he was to make his name [there] as one of the most sought-after fashion photographers in the world. But most people are unfamiliar with Blumenfeld's early work, the often bitingly satiric Dada photomontages and collages he produced between 1916 and 1933.
2008
Hatje Cantz
46,50 euros (bound)
224 pages + 97 color and 130 duotone illustrations
ISBN : 3775721274
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George BAKER - The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and
Dada in Paris
The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada.
2007
MIT Press
472 pages
24,47 euros
ISBN: 026202618X
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Matthew BIRO - The Dada Cyborg :
Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin
Biro's unique and interdisciplinary analysis offers a substantially new account of the Berlin Dada movement, one that integrates the group's poetic, theoretical, and performative practices with its famous visual strategies of photomontage, assemblage, and mixed-media painting to reveal radical images of a "new human."
Introduction: Cyborgs, Hybridity, and Identity
1. Berlin Dada: Origins, Practices, and Institutions
2. Hannah Höch's Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Photomontage, Signification, and the Mass Media
3. Raoul Hausmann's Revolutionary Media: Dada Performance, Photomontage, and the Cyborg
4. The Militarized Cyborg: Soldier Portraits, War Cripples, and the Deconstruction of the Authoritarian Subject
5. The New Woman as Cyborg: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Photomontages of Hannah Höch
Conclusion: Dada Cyborgs in the Twenty-first Century
2009
University of Minnesota Press
400 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8166-3620-4
20,75 euros paper
50 b&w photos
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Leah DICKERMAN and Brigid DOHERTY - Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Dada--the catalogue to the 2006 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents the hybrid forms of Dada art through an examination of city centers where Dada emerged: Zürich, Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, New York, and Paris. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zürich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. The city sections bring together painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work. Relying on dynamic design and vivid documentary images, Dada takes us through these six cities via topical essays and extensive plate sections; an illustrated chronology of the movement; witty chronicles of events in each city center; a selected bibliography; and biographies of each artist--accompanied by Dada-era photographs.
Illustrated edition (9 April 2008)
536 pages / 400 colour and 150 b&w.
37,96 euros
National Gallery of Art, Washington
ISBN-10: 0894683136
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Andrei CODRESCU - The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
"Dadaists were anti-everything, including art, so it wasn't much of a coherent aesthetic, and that was the point. Ideologies were out, flexibility, irony and free love were in. They were ur-bohemians, whose predecessors and heirs include Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, yippies, hippies and punks. Dada, says Codrescu, still has much important nonsense to impart." (Carly Berwick, – Los Angeles Times)
2009
248 pages
Princeton University Press (February 22, 2009)
Collection : Public Square
7,12 euros / $11.53
ISBN-10: 0691137781
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Julian Jason HALADYN - Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés
Duchamp's famous last artwork, seen not as a summation of his work but as an invitation to endless interpretation. Haladyn is a writer and artist based in Canada. He teaches at the University of Western Ontario.
2010
Afterall Publishing - Collection: One Work Series
112 pages
11,47 euros
ISBN-10: 1846380596
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David HOPKINS - Dada's Boys: Masculinity after Duchamp
In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins addresses the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current artistic and theoretical debate. Bestriding the book is the pivotal figure of the artist Marcel Duchamp, who was at the center of various groups of artistic and literary figures —predominantly male— in Europe and America.
2008
Yale University Press
256 pages
42,60 euros
ISBN-10: 0300108958
ISBN-13: 978-0300108958
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Ruth HEMUS - Dada's Women
Ruth Hemus establishes the ways in which Emmy Hennings and Sophie Taeuber in Zurich, Hannah Höch in Berlin, and Suzanne Duchamp and Céline Arnauld in Paris made important interventions across fine art, literature, and performance. Hemus highlights how their techniques and approaches were characteristic of Dada's rebellion against aesthetic and cultural conventions, analyzes the impact of gender on each woman's work, and shows convincingly that they were innovators and not imitators. In its new and original perspective on Dada, the book broadens our appreciation and challenges accepted understandings of this revolutionary avant-garde movement.
2009
Yale University Press (March 3, 2009)
250 pages
33,73 euros
ISBN-10: 0300141483
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Jennifer HIGGIE (Editor) - The Artist's Joke: Documents of Contemporary Art
Ever since Freud's 'Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious' appeared in 1905, humor both light and dark has frequently surfaced as a subversive, troubling, or liberating element in art. 'The Artist's Joke' surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists. The texts collected in this new reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery examine what Andre Breton called the 'lightning bolt' of the unsettlingly comic, as seen in the anarchic wordplay of Duchamp, Picasso, the Dadaists, and Surrealists; Pop's fetish for kitsch and the comic strip; Bruce Nauman's sinister clowns and twisted puns; Richard Prince's joke paintings; art ambushed by feminist wit, from the Dadaism of Hannah Hoch in the 1920s to the politicized conceptualism of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger in the 1980s...
2007
MIT Press
Paperback: 237 pages
18,44 euros
ISBN: 0262582740
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Jennifer MUNDY (Editor) - Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
This book examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers. Central to this is their response to photography and film, and to the challenges posed to fine art by the development of mass production.
2008
Tate Publishing
256 pages
56,95 euros
ISBN: 1854377310
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Benjamin PÉRET - A Menagerie in Revolt: Selected Writings. Introduction by Franklin ROSEMONT
January 2009
Charles H Kerr
Paperback: 148 pages
10,21 euros
ISBN-10: 0882862995
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Francis PICABIA (Author) and Marc LOWENTHAL (Translator) - I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator.
2007
MIT Press
560 pages
35,78 euros
ISBN : 0262162431
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Vasile ROBCIUC - A Key to the Horizon :
21 contemporary composers meeting Dada. Musics for Tristan Tzara.
This unusual volume is Mr. Robciuc's latest original idea. He has encouraged 21 Romanian musicians to compose music inspired by Tzara's poems. The sober presentation in 3 languages with 290 pages of scores will be of interest to music specialists and Dada buffs.
2006
522 p.
Editura Priftis, Darmanesti, Roumanie
21 x 29 cm
ISBN 973-87609-5-X
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Vasile ROBCIUC - Les Cahiers Tristan Tzara.
An excellent multilingual collection of articles on Dada, the Dadaists and the avant-garde by international specialists.
M. Robciuc, despite tremendous obstacles, has succeeded in revealing the importance of the Dada movement in the country where Tzara was born.
n° 1 - 1998
198 p.
n° 2-4 - 2000
183 p.
Éditions Vinea, Bucarest
21 x 29 cm
ISBN 973-9294-59-6 and ISBN 973-9294-67-7
n° 5-12 - 2005
307 p.
n° 13-20 - 2006
270 p.
Editura Priftis, Darmanesti, Roumanie
21 x 29 cm
ISBN 973-87609-0-9 and ISBN 973-87609-1-7
For more information : vasilerobciuccla@yahoo.com
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Michel SANOUILLET and Elmer PETERSON, editors
Marcel DUCHAMP - The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
The book contains Duchamp's experimental writings, the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy ("Eros, c'est la vie" or "arroser la vie"—"drink it up"; "celebrate life").
March 1, 1989
208 p.
11,06 euros
Da Capo Press Inc.
ISBN: 0306803410
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Martin E. SULLIVAN, Anne Collins GOODYEAR, and James W. McMANUS
Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboration with those who portrayed him. During his long career, Duchamp recast accepted modes for assembling and describing identity, indelibly altering the terrain of portraiture. This groundbreaking book demonstrates the ways in which Duchamp willfully manipulated the techniques of portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the art world.
April 30, 2009
308 p.
34,26 euros or $36.46
The MIT Press
ISBN : 0262013002
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Michael R. TAYLOR - Marcel DUCHAMP - Étant donnés
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of its public unveiling, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés situates the extraordinary assemblage within the context of almost 100 related works of art, including all of its known studies and related materials, including books, photographs, and works on paper. Duchamp also made a number of "erotic objects," small-scale sculptures that directly relate to the casting process of the female nude in Étant donnés. This exhibition brings these known works together with more than twenty previously unknown sculptures and studies. These unpublished works include erotic objects, body casts, prints, and notes, as well as over seventy Polaroid photographs taken by Duchamp of Étant donnés in his New York studio that provide the missing link in our understanding of the origins and evolution of Duchamp's final masterwork.
2009
448 p.
45,72 euros
Yale University Press - Collection : Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300149794
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Thomas Deane TUCKER - Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction
The 110-page compilation explores the works of artist Marcel Duchamp and the philosopher Jacques Derrida. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of art history, modernism, and critical theory, as well as for graduate students of philosophy, visual culture studies and art theory.
2008
110 p.
Lexington Books
39,75 euros
ISBN 0739116223
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