Recommended Dada Links

Numerous web sites (perhaps hundreds of them) contain information of use or of interest to persons or organizations concerned by Dada.

These sites are extremely varied, unequal in importance or in content, and by the very nature of their being on the Web, quite volatile. Some appear or disappear from one day to the other. You will find in the following list a glimpse of the ones which seem worth the detour.

Dada in general

Top row: Bernard Faÿ, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupalt, Serge Charchoune
Bottom row: Man Ray, Paul Éluard, Jacques Rigaut, Céline Arnauld, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

ABC's of DADA in 3 Parts
Found (curated by Tad Brooks for pendu.Org)
Three videos on the Zurich and German beginnngs of Dada.

Annenberg Image Library
A superb collection of images.

Art Cyclopedia
Links to the location in museums and art galleries of paintings by Picabia, Hausmann, Arp, Duchamp, Schwitters, Hoch, Man Ray, Heartfield etc. In English.

Ars Libri Ltd.
Catalogues of rare books on modern art.

Artlex on Dada
Links to paintings by Picabia, Hausmann, Duchamp, Arp, Shwitters, Taeuber-Arp, Man Ray, Ernst, Janco.

AO Artobserved
Global contemporary art events, news, and auction results observed from New York City.

Artshop.org, The-
To order Dada pictures and posters on Van Doesburg, Duchamp, Ernst, Grosz, Picabia, Man Ray, Schwitters etc.

Atlas Press
Specialized in extreme and avant-garde prose literature since 1890. Publishers of English books on surrealism, they offer a book list on Dada, expressionnism, Oulipo, the college of Pataphysics...

Bibliothèque Kandinsky
Document and research centre of the museum.
Excellent workplace for art historians, students and scholars specializing in 20th and 21st century art.

Cabaret Voltaire - From Dada to Nietniet
Everything you'd like to know about the Cabaret Voltaire from its beginnings to today, by Olga Stefan.

Dada
Geschichte, Künstler, Gedichte, Zitate. Dada heute. German Dada, in German.

Dada
National Gallery of Art: Cities, art, biographies, cities, slogans.

Cut And Paste
Dada in Germany and a history of photomontage. Hausmann, Höch, Heartfield, Schwitters.

Dada and Surrealism
and a second site :

http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/regions.html
University course on world Dada : Berlin, Cologne, New York, illustrated.

Dada and Surrealism
The stories of a few Dada personalities (extract from the book Women Artists).

Dada and Surrealist Filml
A bibliography of books, documents and movies from the UC Berkeley Library.

Dada Situationist : Mital-U
Dada et situationist site from Switzerland.

Dadaism
Dada's influence on the sound arts, mainly German.

Dada Documents - Useful list of dada links on UbuWeb.

Dada - The Anti-War Art Movement
Provides a listing of major artists, artworks and dates of the Dada and Surrealist Periods. A good art history archive.

Documents of Dada and Surrealism
Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago. By Irene E. Hofmann.

Getty (The)
The J. Paul Getty Foundation is an international cultural institution devoted to the visual arts. Here, the special collection page.

Guggenheim Museum (Dada Movement)
Reproductions of works of art of the major dadaists.

Guggenheim Museum : Kurt Schwitters
Biography, works of art, references.

International Dada Archive
and
Digital Dada Library
The most complete documentary source on the Dada movement : texts, lithographs, periodicals and other works of art. Your first research stop - after Dadart ;-).

Influence of Modern Art, The - Dada (PowerPoint presentation of the movement)

Jan van der Donk
Catalogue of rare avant-garde books, periodicals and varia on architecture, art, drawings and photography.

MoMA.org
The Museum of Modern Art, The Collection, Dada Highlights

Modern Art: Dada, De Stijl, Matisse, Picasso
A beautiful and informative slideshow in colour illustrating Dada, Grosz, Arp, Hausmann, Duchamp etc.

National Gallery of Art - Washington DC
Cities, biographies, art, techniques, slogans of Dada

New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929, The
New York Dada and the Armory Show. Pictures and bibliography.

Smithsonian Magazine
Good online article on Dada with illustrations.

Dada texts
Mainly full texts by Breton, Picabia, Tzara.

Typographer (pp. 6-9, no date)
Texts on dada (examples Kurt Schwitters and John Heartfield) and constructivist
typography (examples El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko) from Layout 1.

Aragon, Louis

Louis Aragon Online
Bilingual biographical and bibliographical site on Aragon, with links to other sites.

Mon siècle, par Aragon
Interview by Jean-Jacques Brochier, Magazine littéraire n° 10, September 1967.

Arp, Jean

Fondation Jean Arp

With Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Hans Richter, Arp participated in the beginning of the Cabaret Voltaire where the Dada movement began in
1916. Lectures, recitals, spontaneous music and later simultaneous poems exalted non-sense.

Cravan, Arthur

Arthur Cravan
A biography, his travels, painting, boxing, Mina Loy, Maintenant etc.

Duchamp, Marcel

See also Marcel Duchamp on Dadart.

Marcel Duchamp World Community (MarcelDuchamp.Net)
The Marcel Duchamp World Community Web Site offers a neutral, unbiased,
internet location for the meeting and exchange of ideas among the international
community of people interested in Marcel Duchamp studies. The site welcomes
news, events, publications, papers -- anything related to Marcel Duchamp and
his larger circle of friends in Dada and Surrealism.

The Artworks of Marcel Duchamp
in 15 themes + a biography on WahooArt (an exceptional site).

Dada without Duchamp / Duchamp without Dada
An intelligent and well documented article by professor Marjorie Perloff.

Encounter with Marcel Duchamp
Includes a reproduction and an explanation of Étant donné, the important dates in Duchamp's life as well as other unpublished treasures.

Étant Donné Marcel Duchamp
Presentation and table of contents of the excellent periodical devoted to Duchamp, Étant Donné.

Marcel Duchamp in His Own Words
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Duchamp comments in English in three consecutive clips on his evolution in painting and his implication in the iconoclastic ideas of Dada. Why did he take up chess? "Playing chess is like designing or constructing something." Of course his remarks stop before Étant Donné was revealed to the public in Philadelphia -- after his death.

Marcel Duchamp's Work
An excellent illustrated presentation of Duchamp's life and work from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
Interactive animated chronicle which brings to life the ideas and influences at the source of Duchamp's art.

Marcel Duchamp News - The New York Times
News about Marcel Duchamp, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

(Ab)Using Marcel Duchamp: The Concept of the Readymade
Good article by Thomas Girst from the MFA Program in Intermedia at the University of Maine: "the most important single idea to come out of Duchamp's work."

The Western Round Table on Modern Art met in San Francisco on April 8, 9 and 10, 1949. You can download and listen to 7.5 hours of it. Partipants: Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gregory Bateson, Mark Tobey, Milhaud.

Witch's Cradle (1943)
Rare silent film by Maya Deren with Marcel Duchamp.
Part 1
Part 2

Lydie Sarazin-Levassor, The Marcel Duchamp I married
Her memoirs, published for the first time in Britain, portray a desperate liaison. Excerpts in The Independent, 11/02/08.

Bits & Bites Duchamp
A website containing 9 superb photos of Marcel or his works.

Marcel Duchamp Redux
Readable brochure from the Norton Simon Museum.

Man Ray

Man Ray videos
on YouTube. A wide selection of uneven importance.

Man Ray
In Artcyclopedia : Museums and Art Galleries / Image Galleries / Other Sites / Articles

Man Ray : photography and its double
International Center of Photography. Photos and biography.

Man Ray : photothèque numérique
Photos and a biography of Man Ray.

Man Ray Trust
Biography, photos, exhibitions.

Man Ray pushed the boundaries of photography. His experimental prints are now some of his most coveted.
Article by Deidre S. Greben in ARTINFO

Picabia, Francis

See also Francis Picabia on Dadart.

The Artworks of Francis Picabia
on WahooArt + biography (a very complete website)

Francis Picabia's Style Problem
What does style mean to an artist's work? "Funny Guy," an exhibition of work by artist Francis Picabia at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, is fertile ground for anyone looking for answers to this question. A very perceptive article by Harry Swartz-Turfle + a video on examiner.com.

Osun.org on Picabia
Excellent and generous source of documents (Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word) on the life and works of Francis Picabia.

Rigaut, Jacques

Satie, Erik

Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1
Beautifully played on Have Note with a nice introduction.

Erik Satie, compositeur de musique
Articles, compositions, music, manuscripts, photographs in English.

Schad, Christian

Short biography, slideshow of Schad's portraits (mostly women, not dada period)
with a terrific jazz musical background. From Artodyssey.

Soupault, Philippe

Philippe Soupault : Exclu pour cause de littérature
Text of the interview published in Magazine littéraire n°16, March 1968.

Philippe Soupault on Tagsup:
Web, image and video results.

Tristan Tzara
Good selection of links on Tzara.

Tristan Tzara et le livre: ses éditeurs et ses illustrateurs
Article based on Hélène Lévy-Bruhl's thesis. A most useful document.

Tristan Tzara, L'homme qui inventa la Révolution Dada
First chapters from François Buot's biography of Tzara.

Some Memoirs of Dadaism
bby Tzara. From aVanity Fair, July, 1922 (OldMagazineArticles.com)

Van Doesburg, Théo

Detail from Van Doesburg's Small Dada Soirée, a poster for a 1923 dada tour of the Netherlands.

Theo van Doesburg: The Splintered Self
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg experimented with poetry, design, architecture and even advertising. Adrian Searle in The Guardian applauds a new show at the Tate that captures his many lives.

Dear Kitty, some blog is an excellent page on van Doesburg despite its title.