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Article: Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada. Ed. By STEPHEN C. FOSTER. 8 vols. New York: Hall. 1996-2002. Vol II: Dada Zurich: A Clown's Game from Nothing. Ed. by BRIGITTE PICHON and KARL RIHA. 1996. xiii + 281 pp.; Vol. III: Dada Cologne Hanover. Ed. by CHARLOTTE STOKES and STEPHEN C. FOSTER. 1998. xv + 251 pp. $95 each.
These books are part of a unique project, to be completed in a couple of years' time, which aims to examine all aspects of the Dada movement that flourished in the early twentieth century in Central, Western and Eastern Europe as well as in the US and in Japan. Editors and contributors approach Dada as an historical phenomenon and cover the movement in ...