1st Edition
Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada Art and Criticism, 1914–1924
By Theresa Papanikolas
Copyright 2010
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada sheds new light on Paris Dada's role in developing the anarchist and individualist philosophies that helped shape the cultural dialogue in France following the First World War. Drawing on such surviving documentation as correspondence, criticism, periodicals, pamphlets, and manifestoes, this book argues that, contrary to received wisdom, Dada was driven by... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Anarchism and anarcho-individualism in postwar France; Constructing a postwar humanity: creative individualism and social responsibility; Deconstructing culture: revolutionary anarchism in Zurich and Paris Dada; Paris Dada and culture: critical responses; Towards a new construction: Breton's break with Dada and the formation of Surrealism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Theresa Papanikolas is Curator of European and American Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, USA.
'Theresa Papanikolas’s book on Paris Dada revises our understanding of this seminal movement which - in contrast to Berlin and Zurich Dada - has been too readily dismissed as lacking an ideological focus. The author's fresh perspective enables her to reconfigure the history of the movement in an exciting way that offers new insight on Paris Dadaist art and writing.' Mark Antliff, author of Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939
