Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada And The Unmaking Of Twentieth Century Jed Rasula Basic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

In 1916 As World War I Raged Around Them A Group Of Bohemians Gathered At Small Cabaret Zurich Switzerland After Decorating The Walls With Art By Picasso And Other Avant-Garde Artists They Embarked On Series Extravagant Performances Three Readers Simultaneously Recited Poem Languages Monocle-Wearing Teenager Performed Spell From New Zealand Another Young Man Sneered Audience Snapping Whip He Intoned His Fantastic Prayers \ One Called These Sessions Both Buffoonery Requiem Mass Soon Would Have More Evocative Name: Dada Destruction Was My Beatrice Modernist Scholar Jed Rasula Presents First Narrative History Showing How This Little-Understood Artistic Phenomenon Laid Foundation For Culture We Know It Today Although Venue Where Born Closed Only Four Months Its Acolytes Scattered Idea Quickly Spread To York Influenced Like Marcel Duchamp Ray Berlin Inspired Painters George Grosz Hannah Höch Paris Dethroned Previous Movements Fauvism Cubism While Inspiring Early Surrealists André Breton Louis Aragon Paul Éluard Long Tail Dadaism Shows Can Be Traced Even Further Diverse William S Burroughs Robert Rauschenberg Marshall Mcluhan Beatles Monty Python David Byrne Jean-Michel Basquiat All Whom Along Untold Others Owe Debt Bizarre Wartime Escapades Vanguard Globe-Spanning That Resurrects Some 20Th Century\ Most Influential Figures Describes Burst Upon Midst Total Effects Explosion Are Still Reverberating Σελίδες: 384 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0602 Διαστάσεις: 16X16Cm