Quite presentable, 'gadji beri bimba,' & collectible. In DESTRUCTION WAS MY BEATRICE, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to understand today." Pristine paperback ARC w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, no jacket as issued & that cool cover photo of Hugo Ball reciting his poems at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich 1916. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. One of the artists called these sessions 'both buffoonery and a requiem mass.' Soon they would have a more evocative name: Dada. Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century - Kindle edition by Rasula, Jed. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand another man flung bits of papier-mache into the air and glued them into place where they landed.
'The true dadas are against DADA,' Tristan Tzara wrote in the 'Dada Manifesto.' 'In principle I am against manifestoes, as I am against principles. "In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland, for a series of bizarre performances. In the NYT Sunday Book Review, Andrei Codrescu reviews modernist scholar Jed Rasula's history of Dada, Destruction Was My Beatrice (Basic Books, 2015).
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