Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

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University of California Press, May 6, 1996 - Art - 274 pages
Hugo Ball—poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic—was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.
 

Contents

Editors Note
xi
Chronology
xlvii
The Backdrop
3
The Word and the Image
50
On the Rights of God and Man
133
Flight to the Fundamental
183
Dada Manifesto
219
Balls Sources
235
Bibliography
256
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