THE DADA SEMINARS

Dickerman, Leah (Ed. by) with Matthew S. Witkovsky

ISBN 10: 1933045140 / ISBN 13: 9781933045146

Published by D. A. P. / Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2005

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New York: D.A. P. / Distributed, Art Publishers, 2005. 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches: pp. viii, 308. Black and white lettering to red jacket. Black lettering to spine of crimson, cloth-covered boards. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Numerous black and white illustrations. Includes twelve essays, with notes, contributors, index and photographic credits. Dust jacket has light edge and corner wear, sticker on back panel. Light bumping on bottom edges of boards. Text is unmarked. Clean, tight, bright. National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The studies of artists and concepts in this volume present Dada as a prodigiously creative avant-garde that coheres, for all its diversity, around a radical reinvention of the nature of the art object.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DADA SEMINARS
• Publisher: D. A. P. / Distributed Art Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933045140
• ISBN 13: 9781933045146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • ART HISTORY

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Synopsis

This volume of 12 essays fills a broad gap in Modernist art history. Taken together, these case studies on artists and concepts present Dada as a coherent movement with a set of operating principles. Among the “ tactics” elaborated are the hyperbolic mimicry of dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the modes of a new media culture and marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory as blasted in a world traumatized by war.The Dada Seminars developed out of a series of seminars held by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, in advance of 2005's major traveling exhibition on international Dada. Contributors include George Baker, T.J. Demos, Leah Dickerman, Uwe Fleckner, Hal Foster, Amelia Jones, David Joselit, Marcella Lista, Helen Molesworth, Arnauld Pierre, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

Synopsis

Presenting Dada as a coherent movement with a clear set of operating principles. Transcribes a series of talks given by some of the most eminent names in art history.