Stephen C. Foster

"Paris Dada" stands apart from the other Dada-doms treated in this series because of the sometimes complicated interaction between the French writers and artists associated with the movement and the band of avant-garde foreigners who flocked to Paris at the end of World War I. These foreigners -- Tzara, Picabia, Man Ray, Iliazd, et al -- were largely uninfluenced by the French tradition of mainly civil art and a call to "return to order" after the war. In this volume, editor Elmer Peterson has brought together essays that clearly show the interaction between the newcomers and the Parisian Dadaists that shaped this time in the history of the radical art movement.

Crisis and the Arts: Paris Dada, the barbarians storm the gates

During World War I, an international group of young artists and writers fled to Zurich, in neutral Switzerland. In reaction to the horror of the war and the onslaught of new technology, as well as to the suffocating aesthetic of futurism and cubism, these artists began to create a new kind of art - art that was antilogical, anti-aesthetic, anarchistic, confrontional, shocking. Performing and exhibiting at the famous Cafe Voltaire, these artists called the new art "Dada." Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural of Cultural Politics, the first in the eight-volume series Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, provides parameters for the historical and sociological context of Dada. In a collection of essays from internationally respected scholars, Dada's manifestations in visual arts, theater, the media, and literature, as well as the correspondence between Dadas and their various manifestos, are explored to present a nuanced examination of the movement. In addition, the volume addresses the relevancy of an extensive study of Dada to present-day concerns

Dada, the Coordinates of Cultural Politics

The Critics of Abstract Expressionism

Jörgen Schäfer

Despite the short life of the Dada movement, it has provoked the interest of art historians, museum directors and literary critics from all over the world. The present volume comprises the literary texts of individual Dadaists and periodicals from all Dada centers as well as books, articles, exhibition catalogs and bibliographies by international scholars. Jo rgen Scha fer's Exquisite Dada is the most exhaustive bibliography on Dada that has ever been compiled so far. By giving a synopsis of some decades of scholarly research, it provides an indispensable source for further studies on the matter.

The History of Dada

Crisis and the Arts

The contributors to this book rewrite Richter's history to include his pivotal role in the development of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism.

Stephen C. Foster

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