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The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin
Matthew Biro
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Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 50 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; ACXD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 22. Weight in Grams: 608.
Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art
In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes and fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
In what could be termed a prehistory of the posthuman, Matthew Biro shows the ways in which new forms of human existence were imagined in Germany between the two world wars through depictions of cyborgs. Examining the work of Hannah Höch, ... Read moreBiro’s unique and interdisciplinary analysis offers a substantially new account of the Berlin Dada movement, one that integrates the group’s poetic, theoretical, and performative practices with its famous visual strategies of photomontage, assemblage, and mixed-media painting to reveal radical images of a “new human.” Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816636204
SKU
V9780816636204
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About Matthew Biro
Matthew Biro is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan.
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