The Dada cyborg
Subtitle: visions of the new human in Weimar Berlin
By: Matthew Biro.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780816636198; 9780816636204
Subjects: Cyborgs in art; Dadaism -- Germany -- Berlin; Art, German -- Germany -- Berlin -- 20th century
Other titles: Visions of the new human in Weimar Berlin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction. Cyborgs, hybridity, and identity; title: 1. Berlin Dada : origins, practices, and institutions; title: 2. Hannah Höch's cut with the kitchen knife : photomontage, signification, and the mass media; title: 3. Raoul Hausmann's revolutionary media : Dada performance, photomontage, and the cyborg; title: 4. The militarized cyborg : soldier portraits, war cripples, and the deconstruction of the authoritarian subject; title: 5. The new woman as cyborg : gender, race, and sexuality in the photomontages of Hannah Höch; title: Conclusion. Dada cyborgs in the twenty-first century; title: Notes; title: Index.