Customer Review: I have always had a weakness for Dada, and within this quixotic movement a special liking for Schwitters. So I visited the Dada-exposition in the Paris Centre Pompidou last year, and there bought both the Dickerman catalogue of the American exposition, and the (French language) catalogue of the... more info
Customer Review: Dada wasn't really an art movement. It was an intellectual cry for help, decrying the degradation of art in a mass society. As such, it embodied an idea - the revolt against form - that lives on to this day even though the movement died quickly largely because its governing idea ran out of oxygen to... more info
Customer Review: I did my senior research paper on Dadaism and found this book to be exceptionally helpful. This book covered the Dada scene In Europe: Hanover, Cologne, Paris, Zurich. As well as within America from Man Ray, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp. Though all of these section were quite condensed but... more info
Customer Review: This is Motherwell's classic book on Dada. It was the only comprehensive look at Dada for along time. Good for an intro as well as a comprehensive coverage of the original Dada's and their works.
Customer Review: This is a wonderful book. As a Dadaist I think it is a valuable addition to my library of Dada literature. Dada was a hotbed of transformative thinking back in the 1920's that later led to Surrealism, Fluxus, Pop Art, Neoism, Be sure to hunt up the "Neoist Manifesto" by the Neoist Society. Another... more info
Customer Review: As can be seen by some of the reviews, this goes waaaaaay over some peoples heads. For others, it changes lives. I am of the latter category, and i will never be the same after having read this book.
Customer Review: Combining manifestos, art criticism, and history into a comic book is no easy task, but I think the authors have succeeded in creating an intriguing overview of a unique artistic movement. Although it is an overview, it doesn't seem oversimplified. I knew very little about Dada and Surrealism before... more info
Customer Review: This collection is an absolute essential for all of humanity, but especially those as obsessed as I am with art, writing, passion, politics, love, hate, rage, calm, and the resulting dynamic ... Dadaism is truly truly truly a timeless movement that could never happen again and that is sad, but at... more info
