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The Dada painters and poets

An anthology

Author

Person cited Théo Van Doesburg
Contributions by Man Ray
Edited by Robert Motherwell
Illustrated by Raoul Hausmann, Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, Jean ou Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia
Text by Hugo Ball, Bernard Karpel, Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, Arthur Cravan, Albert Gleizes, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hans Richter, Erik Satie, Kurt Schwitters, Jacques Vaché, Jean ou Hans Arp, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Paul Éluard, Georges Hugnet, Sidney Janis, Philippe Soupault, Tristan Tzara

Description

Anthologie du mouvement dada éditée par Robert Motherwell, et publiée aux éditions Wittenborn Schultz à New-York en 1951.

Édition originale de cette importante anthologie dada.
Texte de Arp, Ball, Breton, Cravan, Huelsenbeck, Satie, Schwitters, Tzara, Vaché.
Illustrations de Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, Hausmann, Klee, Picabia, Schwitters, etc.
Nombreuses reproductions photographiques.

Sont joints à l’exemplaire : Le Manifeste dada de Richard Huelsenbeck, feuillet in-4° imprimé recto verso ;
une Introduction à Dada de Tristan Tzara, un feuillet in-4° imprimé recto verso ;
une page tapuscrite concernant le Cabaret Voltaire ;
un billet autographe d’André Breton relatif aux tableaux futuristes. [catalogue de la vente, 2003]

Cette importante anthologie rassemble des essais, manifestes, fac-similés et illustrations du mouvement dada, rassemblés par Robert Motherwell en collaboration avec certains artistes dada. [Noémie Zinck, André Breton, 2019]

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction [Robert Motherwell]
List of Illustrations
I. Pre-Dada
1. Exhibition at the Independents, by Arthur Cravan. 1914
2. Arthur Cravan and American Dada, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. 1938
3. Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments), by Erik Satie. 1912–13
i. What I Am
ii. The Day of a Musician
II. En Avant Dada: A History of Dadism, by Richard Huelsenbeck. 1920
III. Dada Fragments, by Hugo Ball. 1916–17
IV. Merz, by Kurt Schwitters. 1920
V. A Dada Personage Two Letters, by Jacques Vaché (to André Breton). 1917–18
VI. Seven Dada Manifestoes, by Tristan Tzara. 1916–20
1. Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine
2. Dada Manifesto. 1918
3. Proclamation without Pretension
4. Manifesto of mr. aa the anti-philosopher
5. Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love Supplement: how I became charming delightful and delicious
Colonial Syllogism
VII. History of Dada, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. 1931
VIII. The Dada Spirit in Painting, by Georges Hugnet. 1932 and 1934
1. Zurich and New York
2. Berlin (1918–22)
3. Cologne and Hanover
4. Dada in Paris
IX. Three Dada Manifestoes, by André Breton. Before 1924
1. For Dada
2. Two Dada Manifestoes
3. After Dada X. Marcel Duchamp, by André Breton. 1922
New York Dada, edited by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. New York, April 1921.
Facsimile
XI. Dada Fragments from Zurich Notes from a Dada Diary, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1932
monsieur duval vases with umbilical cords sketch for a landscape End of the World, by Richard Huelsenbeck. 1916
XII. Dada Fragments from Paris (Two Poems), by Paul Eluard. 1921
Project for a History of Contemporary Literature, by Louis Aragon. 1922.
Facsimile The Magnetic Fields, by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. 1920
XIII. From the Annals of Dada Zurich Chronicle, by Tristan Tzara. 1915–19
Collective Dada Manifesto, by Richard Huelsenbeck. 1920
Lecture on Dada, by Tristan Tzara. 1922
XIV. Some Memories of Pre-Dada: Picabia and Duchamp, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. 1949
La Pomme de Pins, edited by Francis Picabia. St. Raphael, February 25, 1922.
Facsimile
XV. Theo van Doesburg and Dada, by Kurt Schwitters. 1931
XVI. Dada Lives! by Richard Huelsenbeck. 1936
XVII. Dada X Y Z… by Hans Richter. 1948
XVIII. Dada Was Not a Farce, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1949
Sophie, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1946
Appendices
A. The Dada Case, by Albert Gleizes. 1920
B. A Letter on Hugnet’s “Dada Spirit in Painting” by Tristan Tzara. 1937
C. Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist, by Harriet and Sidney Janis. 1945
D. Sound-Rel. 1919, and Birdlike. 1946, by Raoul Hausmann
Bibliography
Did Dada Die? A Critical Bibliography, by Bernard Karpel, Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Index to Bibliography
Addenda: Dada Alive and Well, by Bernard Karpel. 1981
Additional Bibliography
Dada Manifesto 1949, by Richard Huelsenbeck
An Introduction to Dada, by Tristan Tzara
General Index

Notice Worldcat

Bibliographical material	New York, Wittenborn, Schultz, 1951, In-4°. Cartonnage toilé de l’édition, jaquette illustrée.
Date of publication	1951
Publication	first publication
Languages	English
Size	26,00 cm
Illustrations	142 illustrations et photographies en noir
Number of pages	432
Publisher	Wittenborn & Company, New York, Wittenborn Schultz Publishing, New-York
Reference	8535000
Breton Auction, 2003	Lot 421
Keywords	Dada, Monographs, Painting, Poetry
Categories	Catalogues, books on art, artist's books
Permanent link	https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100892911