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‘thoroughly researched and well told’
– Art Monthly
‘TaTa Dada offers a treasure trove of local insights (including the old riddle of the origins of the “Tristan Tzara” monker), but the book comes into its own as a reassessment of the history of Dada itself—of the movement’s origins, as well as of its often contradictory artistic aims. Besides its considerable merits as a biography and an astute historical account of Dadaism, Hentea’s book offers a much-needed re-evaluation of the place of the Central European avant-gardes in the development of what we have come to call, in reductive shorthand, “modernism”.’
– Benjamin Kohlmann, Modernism/Modernity
‘Marius Hentea has gone into a great deal of detail to tell Tzara’s story and his book is well-researched (there are fifty pages of notes) and is a mine of information about Dada and surrealist events, little magazines, small-presses, and a variety of ephemeral publications It’s always readable, too, and avoids academic jargon.’
– Northern Review of Books
‘As well as having acaemic value, [TaTa Dada] is a deeply entertaining book, with great hilarious moments ... Hentea’s biography succeeds in capturing the effervesence of its subject, without being willing to take Tzara invariably at his own word; rarely succeeding, thankfully, in pinning him down, it catches, in flashes, his essence like lightning in a bottle as he speeds by on his celestial adventures.’
– Bookslut
“The first full biography of Dadaism’s co-founder ... provides, among much else about his long career, an absorbing account of the importance of Romanian and Swiss cultures to what’s still thought of as a Parisian phenomenon.
[Marius Hentea’s] well-illustrated, sane book is full of insights ...
... By focusing on Tzara’s “real life” as well as his “celestial adventures”, Hentea gives a fresh sense of the circumstances in which a bunch of students challenged European high culture.”
– Jeremy Treglown, Times Literary Supplement
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