Elza Adamowicz

Dada bodies (eBook, ePUB)

Between battlefield and fairground

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131164
• Artikelnr.: 56523949

Autorenporträt

Elza Adamowicz is Professor Emerita of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: spare parts 2 Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival
dance 3 Shooting the classical body 4 Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible
machine 5 Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque 6 Performance spaces:
fairground, cabaret, exhibition 7 Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis 8
Fluid bodies, shifting identities 9 Dada's Africa 10 Limit-bodies 11
Conclusion: exquisite corpses Index