In this first-hand account, the author, closely associated with the radical and transforming movement from its earliest days, records and traces Dada's history from its inception around 1916, in wartime Zurich, to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s.

Talks about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called Anarchy in the UK was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. In this book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics, and the Knights of the Round Table, unravel the secret history of the twentieth century.

Explores the range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism, whilst at the same time establishing the aesthetic differences between the movements. This book also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body.

This illustrated introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two revolutionary twentieth century art movements. It explores the full range of media used, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making. Aimed at undergraduate and A level students as well as the general reader.

Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris.

This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and the dada and surrealist movements. The essays are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desno's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer .

The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction.

Containing the texts of Alfred Jarry's three Ubu plays, this book also has biographical notes, an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor, and the text of Jarry's Writings on the Theatre .

Each book in Taschen's Basic Art movement and genre series includes a detailed Introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, sporting, etc.) that took place during the time period.

The work of Max Ernst reflected his emphasis on art as a process of enquiry, with his collages and canvases exploring the fantastic world of the unconscious, creating a psychological biography that gave viewers new mental and artistic perspectives. This book presents a selection of his work.

Updating and correcting the earlier book, this edition features previously unknown works by Mina Loy rescued from Dada archives and avant-garde magazines. All of Loy's futurist and feminist satires are included, as are the poems from her Paris and New York periods, and the cycle of Love Songs .

The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.

Reissued for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the definitive biography of one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist figure-painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and collagist.

Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.