Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance (Value Art Politics)
Dafydd Jones
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Description for Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance (Value Art Politics)
Hardcover. This book presents theoretical engagements with Dada - the cultural formation routinely characterised as 'revolutionary' - in order to contest perpetuated assumptions that underlie the popular myth. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion – in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at the heart of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that Western art history routinely exhausts through its characterisation as a ‘revolutionary movement’ of anarchic cultural dissent, and does so in order to contest the perpetuated assumptions about Dada that underlie the popular myth. Dada is difficult and the response to it is not easy, and what emerge from ... Read more
Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion – in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at the heart of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that Western art history routinely exhausts through its characterisation as a ‘revolutionary movement’ of anarchic cultural dissent, and does so in order to contest the perpetuated assumptions about Dada that underlie the popular myth. Dada is difficult and the response to it is not easy, and what emerge from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
Value: Art: Politics
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781380208
SKU
V9781781380208
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Ref
99-27
About Dafydd Jones
Dafydd Jones completed his doctoral study of proto-dadaist Arthur Cravan at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, and lectured in art history, theory and practice for the Open University and at Cardiff School of Art between 1995–2010, where he remains faculty associate. He was formerly visiting researcher to the International Dada Archive and Research Centre at the ... Read more
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