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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

    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 shedding light on overlooked facets of Dadaist art in Romania and North America, the authors cast a spotlight on the less-explored geographical peripheries of Dada. The book is organized around four thematic trajectories—space, language, materiality, and reception—which are dissected through the lens of micro-histories. Recognizing the continuing validity of questions raised by Dadaist artists, this volume argues that Dada persists as an ongoing endeavor—a continual reexamination of the fundamental tenets of art and its ever-evolving potential manifestations.

    The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, modernism, and history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

     

    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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