Destruction was my Beatrice
Subtitle: Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century
By: Jed Rasula
Publisher: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780465089963
Subjects: Dadaism
Other titles: Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century
Description: "Modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to understand today"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cabaret Voltaire; title: Magic Bishop and Mr. Aspirin; title: Fantastic prayers; title: Dada hurts; title: Merz; title: Spark plugs; title: Last loosening; title: A need for complications; title: Nothing, nothing, nothing; title: A Dostoyevsky drama; title: New life; title: Yes no; title: Truth or myth?; title: The afterlife of Dada.