Dada bodies : between battlefield and fairground

Dada bodies : between battlefield and fairground / Elza Adamowicz.

A comprehensive study of Dada's images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a blueprint of th...

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Main Author: Adamowicz, Elza (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Dadaism.
Human figure in art.
Human beings in art.
Dada.
ART > History > General.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Dadaism
Human figure in art
Dadaismus
Körperbild
Kunst
Mensch > Motiv
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: spare parts; Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance; Shooting the classical body; Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine; Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque; Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition; Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis; Fluid bodies, shifting identities; Dada's Africa; Limit-bodies; Conclusion: exquisite corpses; Bibliography; Index

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