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Out of stockOver a hundred years on from the riotous inception of Dada at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, art historian Michael White provides a new introduction and commentary to a book that has become a legend in its own right, influencing a generation of performers and artists since its first publication in 1965 – David Bowie even quoted from Dada: Art and Anti-Art in his Scary Monsters album.
This book celebrates Dada, the art movement founded one hundred and ten years ago, but whose subversive political engagement remains highly relevant today. With a keen eye and biting satire, Dada produced forceful critiques while inquiring into political and social conditions.
Associated at various times with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism, Schwitters produced paintings, collages, sound pieces, sculpture and installation works, as well as journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories. Forced to flee Germany in 1936, Schwitters took refuge first in Norway and then, after the German invasion of Norway, in Britain, where he was interned initially…
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