Shock and the senseless in Dada and Fluxus
By: Dorothée Brill
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Interfaces : studies in visual culture
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584659020; 9781584659174
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: shock of the senseless; title: The notion of shock in early twentieth-century Europe; title: Shock and urbanity: Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel; title: Shock and World War I: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud; title: Shock and tactility in Walter Benjamin; title: Shock and the senseless in Dada; title: Dada's notion of art and its sociocultural context; title: Senselessness, the new, and the "shock of the unintelligible"; title: The senseless in Walter Benjamin's concept of shock; title: Shock and the senseless in Fluxus; title: The sociocultural context of Fluxus; title: From politics to a worldview: transforming the senseless; title: Art as perception; title: Shock and boredom: Fluxus's "senseless perception"; title: Conclusion: communicating the void.