Dada culture: critical texts on the avant-garde 9789042018693, 9042018690

Table of contents :
CONTENTS......Page 6
Short preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
I. Manifestos and Evenings at the Cabaret Voltaire......Page 36
The Mysterious Moment: early Dada performance as ritual......Page 38
The Body of the Voice: corporeal poetics in Dada......Page 67
II. Dada and Language......Page 90
The Language of "Expatriation"......Page 92
Assaulting the Order of Signs......Page 118
III. Dada Siegt!......Page 136
The Prosthetic Body in Early Modernism: Dada's anti-humanist humanism......Page 138
Montage and Totality: Kurt Schwitters's relationship to "tradition" and "avant-garde"......Page 157
IV. Thinkers on Stage......Page 186
The Mortality of Roles: Johannes Baader and spiritual materialism......Page 188
To Be or Not To Be … Arthur Cravan: subject, surface and difference......Page 201
V. Philosophy, Theory and the Avant-Garde......Page 224
Ernst Bloch and Hugo Ball: toward an ontology of the avant-garde......Page 226
Making an Example of Duchamp: history, theory, and the question of the avant-garde......Page 255
VI. Dada Critical Bibliography......Page 286
A Decade of Dada Scholarship: publications on Dada, 1994–2005......Page 288
List of illustrations......Page 323
Contributors......Page 326

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AVANT-GARDE CRITICAL STUDIES 18 Editor

Klaus Beekman Associate Editors Sophie Berrebi, Ben Rebel, Jan de Vries, Willem G. Weststeijn International Advisory Board Henri Béhar, Hubert van den Berg, Peter Bürger, Ralf Grüttemeier, Hilde Heinen, Leigh Landy

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