Ball and Hammer
Subtitle: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast
Contributors: Jeffrey T. Schnapp (Editor, Translator); Jonathan Hammer (Translator)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780300083736
Subjects: Modern fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; 20th century; German Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Germany; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / French; European - German
Description: "In this book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella, Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images. The resulting "dialogue" between Ball, the founder of Zurich Dada, and Hammer, a contemporary artist, casts new light on Dadaism and its postmodern legacies.".

"In Tenderenda, composed between 1914 and 1920, Ball recounts a hallucinatory tale of his own Dada enchantment and disenchantment. Jeffrey T. Schnapp introduces the book, elaborating the cultural and historical context of Ball's work and situating Hammer's work in relation to Dada.

In a concluding essay, Hammer probes various aspects of Ball's asceticism, spirituality, and sexuality to arrive at a revisionist interpretation of Zurich Dada and the origins of modernism as well as postmodern art-making."--BOOK JACKET.