Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement

Dada magazines were essential to the development of the Dada art movement, with a wide range of publications from New York, Paris, Zagreb, and Bucharest. This book explores how the Dadaists compiled, printed, distributed, and exchanged these publications, and how they acted as active agents in the Dada network. It is a valuable resource for historians of art, design, periodical studies, and modernist studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Dada magazines played a pivotal role in shaping the essence of Dadaism, characterized by its diversity, non-hierarchical structure, transnational reach, and audacious defiance of artistic conventions. This groundbreaking book, the first of its kind to critically examine the significance of Dada periodicals within the art movement, offers a fresh perspective on Dada's history by highlighting the centrality of these visually inventive and provocative publications.

Spanning a wide range of Dada cities, including New York, Paris, Zagreb, and Bucharest, the book unveils that Dada's influence extended far into the 1920s, continuing to inspire art journals. Anchored in a rigorous material analysis within a historical and theoretical framework, Dada Magazines presents a novel methodology for assessing various types of periodicals. It traces the intricate process by which Dadaists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Dragan Aleksic, Hannah Höch, and many others, compiled, printed, distributed, and exchanged these publications. At the same time, the book recognizes the journals as active agents that contributed to the formation of the Dada network, and its thematic and chronological structure captures the ongoing exchanges that took place within this network.

In-depth scrutiny of these magazines, along with contemporary "Dadazines" inspired by them, makes Dada Magazines an invaluable resource in the fields of art history, periodical studies, and modernist studies. It sheds light on the profound impact of Dadaism on the artistic landscape and its enduring legacy, inspiring future generations of artists and scholars alike.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350213838