DADA - Art and Anti-Art

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THE WORLD OF ART

Dada
Art And Anti-Art
Hans Richter 179 plates. 8 in colour
A noted painter and film maker and one of Dada's founders, Richter recreates that boisterous and fantastic movement. By skillful quotation from manifestos and other documents, he follows its turbulent history from wartime Zurich to its collapse in Paris in the 1920s. He discusses Dada's place in the development of art; the creative role of its planned outbursts; its outgrowth from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism; how it prepared the way for Surrealism, and he recalls its extravagant, bizarre personalities. Today, the gestures and provocations of the original movement reappear, hardly changed, as Pop Art, a phenomenon dealt with in the final section of this stimulating and authoritative book.
"Hans Richter is the idea! chronicler He manages to write about Dada without getting involved in all the internecine squabbling that makes most accounts of the movement so tiresome."— The Guardian (London)... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE WORLD OF ART

Dada
Art And Anti-Art
Hans Richter 179 plates. 8 in colour
A noted painter and film maker and one of Dada's founders, Richter recreates that boisterous and fantastic movement. By skillful quotation from manifestos and other documents, he follows its turbulent history from wartime Zurich to its collapse in Paris in the 1920s. He discusses Dada's place in the development of art; the creative role of its planned outbursts; its outgrowth from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism; how it prepared the way for Surrealism, and he recalls its extravagant, bizarre personalities. Today, the gestures and provocations of the original movement reappear, hardly changed, as Pop Art, a phenomenon dealt with in the final section of this stimulating and authoritative book.
"Hans Richter is the idea! chronicler He manages to write about Dada without getting involved in all the internecine squabbling that makes most accounts of the movement so tiresome."— The Guardian (London)
"The account which he gives of Dada in its Zurich days during the first world war is authoritative. He manages to con vey some of the zest which filled this small group of revolutionary artists and writers — Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Marcel Janco and the rest."— The Listener (London)
Hans Richter was a painter and film maker, well known for such films as 'Dreams that Money Can Buy' which received the International award at the Venice Bien-nale In 1947. His easel and scroll paintings hang in museums throughout the world. Before his death in 1976 he had been a professor at City College in New York.
On the cover: Hans Arp, Configuration, 1928
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