Dada culture critical texts on the avant-garde (Rodopi, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references (a "Dada Critical Bibliography") (pages 292-321)
Short preface; Introduction; I. Manifestos and Evenings at the Cabaret Voltaire; II. Dada and Language; III. Dada Siegt!; IV. Thinkers on Stage; V. Philosophy, Theory and the Avant-Garde; VI. Dada Critical Bibliography; List of illustrations; Contributors
How Dada is to break its cultural accommodation and containment today necessitates thinking the historical instances through revised application of critical and theoretical models. The volume Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde moves precisely by this motive, bringing together writings which insist upon the continuity of the early twentieth-century moment now at the start of the twenty-first. Engaging the complex and contradictory nature of Dada strategies, instanced in the linguistic gaming and performativity of the movement's initial formation, and subsequently isolating the spec