The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, "the first American Dada."As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing …
The first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde.Tristan Tzara, one of the most important …
An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. …
This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on …
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language …
An investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.The Bauhaus (1919-1933) is widely …
A lavishly illustrated volume that views Russian avant-garde art through the lens of Dada.This is the first book to approach Russian avant-garde art from the perspective of the …
A revisionist history of New York Dada, with appearances by Baroness Elsa as the embodiment of irrational modernism.In Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones gives us a history of New …
Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's ready mades broke with all …
A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.The artist Francis Picabia-notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and …
