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LEADER: 02378cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2015004226
003 DLC
005 20151218082750.0
008 150130s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015004226
020 $a9780465089963 (hardback)
020 $z9780465066940 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNX456.5.D3$bR37 2015
082 00 $a700/.41162$223
084 $aART015100$aART023000$aBIO001000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRasula, Jed.
245 10 $aDestruction was my Beatrice :$bDada and the unmaking of the twentieth century /$cJed Rasula.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,$c[2015]
300 $axvii, 365 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-350) and index.
520 $a"In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâche into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these artists called the sessions "both buffoonery and a requiem mass." Soon they would be known by a more evocative name: Dada. In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to understand today"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aCabaret Voltaire -- Magic Bishop and Mr. Aspirin -- Fantastic Prayers -- Dada Hurts -- Merz -- Spark Plugs -- Last Loosening -- A Need for Complications -- Nothing -- A Dostoyevsky Drama -- New Life -- Yes No -- Truth or Myth?
650 0 $aDadaism.
650 7 $aART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Popular Culture.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh