Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

Brill, Dorothée

ISBN 10: 1584659025 / ISBN 13: 9781584659020

Published by Dartmouth, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
• Publisher: Dartmouth
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584659025
• ISBN 13: 9781584659020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In this thought-provoking work, Dorothee Brill examines notions of shock and the senseless in Dada and Fluxus, pairing two distinctly radical art movements that challenged the very notion and purpose of art. Laying out a genealogy of surrealisms, she addresses the senseless in artistic production as a strategy toward shock-generally considered to be characteristic of the historical avant-garde. Examining the changing correlation between the notions of shock and the senseless in their artistic use in prewar Europe and postwar America, Brill arrives at a new understanding of the overstrained and generally pejorative catch phrase of "shock for shock's sake."

About the Author

DOROTHEE BRILL obtained her Ph.D. from the University of London and now holds a position at the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin.