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.
Dadart would appreciate knowing how you react to these sites. Keep us informed if you discover anything new. Thanks.
Dada in general
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.
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.
Dada Surrealism and Beyond
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Museum has been able to form a spectacular holding of Dada and Surrealist material, comprising paintings, ready-mades, and photographs. This repository also includes extensive library and documentary materials that make the collection an important international research resource.
Dada
Geschichte, Künstler, Gedichte, Zitate. Dada heute. German Dada, in German.
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 - 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 ;-).
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
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.
Aragon
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 Cravan
A biography, his travels, painting, boxing, Mina Loy, Maintenant etc.
Duchamp
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'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.
(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.
Marcel Duchamp World Community
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.
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.
Man Ray
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.
Picabia
391
Experimental art inspired by Picabia's Dada periodical 391. Plus articles on Picabia, Duchamp, Ball and others.
Fine Arts
Superb slideshow of 15 paintings by Picabia.
Francis Picabia
Biography and bibliography in German.
Images of Feeling
Biography and "Manifeste cannibale dada" by Francis Picabia.
Rigaut
Satie
Erik Satie, compositeur de musique
Articles, compositions, music, manuscripts, photographs.
Soupault
Philippe Soupault : Exclu pour cause de littérature
Text of the interview published in Magazine littéraire n°16, March 1968.
Tzara
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.