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Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins: Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America book cover

1st Edition

Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America

Edited By Ronit Milano, Raya Zommer-Tal, Noam Gonnen Copyright 2024
212 Pages 15 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 15 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 15 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America. Contributors consider some of the practices and experiments that were conceived a century ago, surfaced in art throughout the twentieth century, and are still relevant today. Unearthing its Israeli origins, examining Dadaist expressions in Poland, and... Read more

Introduction

PART I: Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries

1. Marcel Janco Architect in Romania

ANA-MARIA ZAHARIADE

2. The Delirious Specter of Dada: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Her Costumes Using the Lenses of Collage, Assemblage, and Montage

KATHRYN DRURY WAGNER

3. Through the Eyes of an Architect, the Soul of an Artist: Marcel Janco and Ein Hod Artist Colony

IRIT CARMON POPPER

PART II: Reception in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

4. Dada in Romania: How Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines Celebrated Dada

AMELIA MIHOLCA

5. Authenticity after Duchamp: On the Reception of the Readymade Legacy in Israel in the 1970s

ELA KRIEGER

PART III: Disputing Matter and Materiality

6. Acoustic Ecologies: John Cage and Robert Smithson after Hugo Ball’s Unrestrained Nature

ADI LOURIA HAYON

7. “Junk Impresario” or the Creaking Jew

NISSIM GAL

PART IV: Language and Syntax

8. “Language Dissection” as a Rhetoric of Healing: Yael Bartana and the Spirit of Dada

TEHILA SADE

9. The Alphabet of Forms: Initial Data for a Bottom-up Approach to Architectural Morphogenesis. A Practical Project Presentation at UAUIM Bucharest, with a Brief Introduction by Raya Zommer-Tal

AUGUSTIN IOAN

PART V: The Center-Margins Trajectory

10. Interview with Marcel Janco: The Years in Zürich: 1914-1919

FRANCIS M. NAUMANN

11. Marcel Janco, Dada and Its Reverberation and Avatars in the Twentieth Century

MICHAEL FINKENTHAL

Epilogue: dada after Dada

HAIM FINKELSTEIN

Biography

Ronit Milano is a senior lecturer at the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Raya Zommer-Tal is the Director and Chief Curator of the Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel.

Noam Gonnen is an associate lecturer at the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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