Dada presentism : an essay on art & history / Maria Stavrinaki ; translated by Daniela Ginsburg.

Main entry:

Stavrinaki, Maria, author.

Title & Author:

Dada presentism : an essay on art & history / Maria Stavrinaki ; translated by Daniela Ginsburg.

Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

107 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Orlando -- Posthistory and prehistory -- The present as reproducible time -- Art's efficacy or Dada's use-value -- The moment of decision : the future-from-now -- The paradigm of immaculate conception : between fiction and history.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in 'Dada Presentism', Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art within it. The original (Berlin-based) Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their modern experience of time, she contends, anticipated the formulations of major historians such as Reinhart Koselleck and, more recently, François Hartog. The book explores Dada temporalities and concepts of history in works of art, artistic discourse, and in the photographs of the Berlin Dada movement. These photographs -- including the famous one of the First International Dada Fair -- are presented not as simple, transparent documents, but as formal deployments conforming to a very concrete theory of history. This approach allows Stavrinaki to link Dada to more contemporary artistic movements and practices interested in history and the archive. At the same time, she investigates what seems to be a real oxymoron of the movement: its simultaneous claim to the ephemeral and its compulsive writing of its own history. In this way, Dada Presentism also interrogates the limits between history and fiction."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780804794244 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804794243 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804798129 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0804798125 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(electronic)
9780804798150
080479815X

Subject:

Dadaism Germany Berlin.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts and history.
Arts, Modern.
Dadaïsme Allemagne Berlin.
Arts 20e siècle.
Arts et histoire.
Dadaism.
Germany Berlin.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293358
Call No.: BIB 238202
Status: Available

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