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Michel Sanouillet's book Dada à Paris is the founding study of the Dada movement to which almost all succeeding publications make reference. A new French edition under an editorial team headed by the author himself has just been published by CNRS Editions and is now available in the bookstores and through the Internet. This latest French edition is comprised of 652 pages, concerns the history and study of the movement. The appendix is comprised of heretofore unpublished documents: 252 original letters (with exclusive permission) exchanged among Dada protagonists over the ten-year lifetime of the movement; an extensive bibliographical section (over 1000 items); an index. About the author: Professor Michel Sanouillet is Dean Emeritus, University of Nice, France; Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto (Canada); Founder and first President of the International Association for the study of Dada and Surrealism; Judiciary Expert in Modern Art. --0-- "Michel Sanouillet's penetrating and prodigious study of Paris Dada opened the gates for all Dada scholars to come. Like Robert Motherwell in this country, he, more than anyone else, made it possible to focus serious attention on what many had superficially considered a noisy but short-lived and minor artistic movement. Drawing on his cordial personal relationships with several of the key Dada figures such as Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and André Breton, and access through them to a great deal of hitherto unpublished material, Michel Sanouillet meticulously recreated and analysed Dada in Paris, its antecedents and its influences in the first of what would prove to be an impressive number of monographs by him on the movement."Elmer PETERSON, Crisis and the Arts. The History of Dada, --0--"One has to admit that nobody will be able to study the literary and intellectual history of the post World War I period without making reference to Michel Sanouillet's book."Michel LEGRIS in Le Monde. TABLE OF CONTENTS Préambule 1. Dada en procès Chapitre I. Paris en guerre et l'« esprit nouveau » Chapitre II. Les « Trois Mousquetaires » Chapitre III. Littérature Chapitre IV. Premières escarmouches Chapitre V. Les Champs magnétiques Chapitre VI. Les Débuts de Dada Chapitre VII. Les Grandes manifestations (I) Chapitre VIII. Les Grandes manifestations (II) Chapitre IX. La Vie du mouvement Chapitre X. Dada et la N.R.F. Chapitre XI. Les Publications dada : 1920 Chapitre XII. La « Relance » 1921 Chapitre XIII. La « Grande saison dada » Chapitre XIV. Le « Procès Barrès » Chapitre XV. Picabia se sépare de Dada Chapitre XVI. Autour d'un « Salon dada » Chapitre XVII. Brouilles et bisbilles (été-automne 1921) Chapitre XVIII. Dada fait école Chapitre XIX. Les Publications dada : 1921 Chapitre XX. Le « Congrès de Paris » Chapitre XXI. Déclin de Dada - Publications 1922 Chapitre XXII. Activités centrifuges Chapitre XXIII. Dada et son public Chapitre XXIV. Conclusion et bilan Appendice 1. Correspondance Breton - Tzara - Breton 2. Correspondance Tzara - Picabia- Tzara 3. Correspondance Breton - Picabia - Breton 4. Correspondances et textes divers 5. Bibliographie 6. Gisements d'information 7. Index des noms de personnes |