基本説明
「ダダはなにも意味しない」このトリスタン・ツァラの鮮烈な宣言はいまでも我々を惹きつけます。第一次大戦期のヨーロッパ、新しい芸術の創造を目指した若者たちがチューリッヒの文芸カフェ「キャバレー・ヴォルテール」で旗揚げしたダダはその後の現代芸術にも大きな影響をあたえます。本書はダダの誕生、各国への展開、そしてその終焉までを多くの資料を基に跡づけます。(2015/06/04)
Full Description
In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand another young man sneered at the audience, snapping a whip as he intoned his Fantastic Prayers." One of the artists called these sessions both buffoonery and a requiem mass." Soon they would have a more evocative name: Dada.In Destruction Was My Beatrice , modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of Dada, showing how this little-understood artistic phenomenon laid the foundation for culture as we know it today. Although the venue where Dada was born closed after only four months and its acolytes scattered, the idea of Dada quickly spread to New York, where it influenced artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray to Berlin, where it inspired painters George Grosz and Hannah Höch and to Paris, where it dethroned previous avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism while inspiring early Surrealists like André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Éluard. The long tail of Dadaism, Rasula shows, can be traced even further, to artists as diverse as William S. Burroughs, Robert Rauschenberg, Marshall McLuhan, the Beatles, Monty Python, David Byrne, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, all of whom,along with untold others,owe a debt to the bizarre wartime escapades of the Dada vanguard.A globe-spanning narrative that resurrects some of the 20th century's most influential artistic figures, Destruction Was My Beatrice describes how Dada burst upon the world in the midst of total war,and how the effects of this explosion are still reverberating today.
Contents
1. Cabaret Voltaire 2. Magic Bishop and Mr. Aspirin 3. Fantastic Prayers 4. Dada Hurts 5. Merz 6. Spark Plugs 7. Last Loosening 8. A Need for Complications 9. Nothing, Nothing, Nothing 10. A Dostoyevsky Drama 11. New Life 12. Yes No 13. Truth or Myth? Afterword: "Destruction Was My Beatrice"
