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Article: The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2000
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The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet. By ERDMUTE WENZEL WHITE. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1998. xii + 254 pp. + 23 plates. 35 [pounds sterling].
This study takes a new look at Hugo Ball (1886-1927), who is perhaps best known as a leading figure of the Zurich Dada movement and as the author of radical sound poems. But Ball also wrote prose and essays, he was interested in other art forms, such as dance, music, and theatre, and he was a radical pacifist and a serious thinker who explored Eastern and Western philosophy and religion. However, Erdmute White is primarily concerned with Ball's literary writings and ...