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Dada Bodies: between battlefield and fairground is the first comprehensive study to focus critical attenton on Dada's limit-forms of the human image from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, in its different centres (Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Paris and New York), and diverse media (art, literature, performance, photography and film). Iconoclastic or grotesque, assembled out of disparate elements or reduced to a fragment, machine-part, eggbeater or blob, Dada's bodily images are confronted here as fictional constructs rather than organic integrated unities. They act as both a reflection of, and a reflection on, the disjunctive, dehumanized society of war-torn and post-war Europe, while seeking to promote a blueprint of a future, possible body. Featuring new insights and detailed analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, informed by recent theoretical and critical perspectives, complemented by colour and black-and-white reproductions of works discussed, Dada bodies offers an original and lively survey of the topic. The result is a reassessment of the movement, showing that Dada occupies an ambivalent space, between the battlefield (in the satirical exposure of the lies of an ideology that sought to cloth the corpse of wartime Europe), and the fairground (in the ludic, the body playfully manipulated and joyful renewed, through laughter, dream and dance). The interdisciplinary approach adopted, and the reappraisal of Dada in relation to the broader avantgarde, will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature, as well as the informed general reader.
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Dada Bodies: between battlefield and fairground is the first comprehensive study to focus critical attenton on Dada's limit-forms of the human image from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, in its different centres (Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Paris and New York), and diverse media (art, literature, performance, photography and film). Iconoclastic or grotesque, assembled out of disparate elements or reduced to a fragment, machine-part, eggbeater or blob, Dada's bodily images are confronted here as fictional constructs rather than organic integrated unities. They act as both a reflection of, and a reflection on, the disjunctive, dehumanized society of war-torn and post-war Europe, while seeking to promote a blueprint of a future, possible body. Featuring new insights and detailed analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, informed by recent theoretical and critical perspectives, complemented by colour and black-and-white reproductions of works discussed, Dada bodies offers an original and lively survey of the topic. The result is a reassessment of the movement, showing that Dada occupies an ambivalent space, between the battlefield (in the satirical exposure of the lies of an ideology that sought to cloth the corpse of wartime Europe), and the fairground (in the ludic, the body playfully manipulated and joyful renewed, through laughter, dream and dance). The interdisciplinary approach adopted, and the reappraisal of Dada in relation to the broader avantgarde, will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature, as well as the informed general reader.
Author Biography
Simona Storchi is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leicester
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date March 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526131164 / 1526131161
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Reference Code10962
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