Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement

265 Pages·2021·8.675 MB·English

by  Emily Hage

Dada Magazines

Dada Magazines
The Making of a Movement
Emily Hage
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Cover image © Top left: Bulletin Dada, ed. Tristan Tzara, Paris, 1920,
front cover, letterpress, 14 13/16 x 10 7/8 in. (37.6 x 27.7 cm).
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
1 An Extraordinary Opportunity to Be Denounced as a Wit:
How Magazines Launched “Dada,” 1916–1917 25
2 “Every Page Must Explode”: Manipulating the Magazine Medium,
1918–1920 57
3 Printing Artworks, Exhibiting Ephemera: Dada Journals
and Exhibitions, 1920–1921 91
4 “Be on Your Guard, Madam”: New York Dada and the
Magazine as Readymade, 1921 127
5 Contingency and Continuity: Dada Magazines and the
Expanding Network, 1922–1926 157
Epilogue: Magazines to Zines: Echoes of Dada in 1970s America 199
Bibliography 209
Index 224
Illustrations
Plates
1 Cabaret Voltaire, ed. Hugo Ball, Zurich, 1916, Meierei Verlag,
front cover
2 Cabaret Voltaire, ed. Hugo Ball, Zurich, 1916, Meierei Verlag,
front cover
3 Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1918, Mouvement Dada,
front cover
4 Der Dada 3, ed. George Grosz, John Heartfield, and
Raoul Hausmann, Berlin, 1920, Malik-Verlag, p. 16
5 Dada 4–5: Anthologie Dada, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919,
Mouvement Dada, limited issue front cover
6 Dada 4–5: Anthologie Dada, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919,
Mouvement Dada, limited issue front cover
7 Bleu 3, ed. Gino Cantarelli, Mantua, 1921, front cover
8 “Jugoslavenski, da da, DA DA, DA, DA …: U Osijeku,
Royal-kino dne 20. viii. matinée u 1/2 11 sati., Vinkovci:
Stamparija D. Gruić, 1922,” Poster for Dada event, Zagreb, 1922
9 75 HP, ed. Ilarie Voronca, Victor Brauner, Bucharest, 1924,
front cover
10 75 HP, ed. Ilarie Voronca, Victor Brauner, Bucharest, 1924, p. 9
Figures
I.1 Dada-Jok, ed. Ljubomir Micic, Zagreb, 1922, front cover 2
I.2 Tristan Tzara stationery: Mouvement Dada, Paris, 1920, letterpress 5
I.3 Merz 1, ed. Kurt Schwitters, Hanover, 1923, p. 10, letterpress 6
I.4 Hannah Höch with Raoul Hausmann, untitled collage on trial
print of Der Dada 1, on cardboard, c. 1920 11
1.1 Cabaret Voltaire, ed. Hugo Ball, Zurich, 1916, Meierei Verlag, front
cover 28
Illustrations ix
1.2 Cabaret Voltaire, ed. Hugo Ball, Zurich, 1916, Meierei Verlag, front
cover 29
1.3 Cabaret Voltaire, ed. Hugo Ball, Zurich, 1916, Meierei Verlag, p. 20 30
1.4 Gino Cantarelli, “Costellazione,” manuscript/mock-up of poem
published in Dada 2, 1917 32
1.5 Dada 2, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1917, p. 8 33
1.6 Noi 1, ed. Enrico Prampolini, Rome, 1917, front cover 39
2.1 391 8, ed. Francis Picabia, Zurich, 1917, front cover 58
2.2 Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1918, Mouvement Dada,
front cover 66
2.3 Der Dada 3, ed. George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Raoul
Hausmann, Berlin, 1920, Malik-Verlag, p. 4 68
2.4 Der Dada 3, ed. George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Raoul
Hausmann, Berlin, 1920, Malik-Verlag, p. 16 69
2.5 Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1918, Mouvement Dada, p. 13,
c. 1917 70
2.6 Der Dada 2, ed. Raoul Hausmann, Berlin, 1919, p. 6 72
2.7 Dada 4–5: Anthologie Dada, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919 73
2.8 Dada 4–5: Anthologie Dada, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919,
second front cover 74
2.9 Dada 4–5, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919, Mouvement Dada,
limited issue cover 75
2.10 Dada 4–5, ed. Tristan Tzara, Zurich, 1919, Mouvement Dada,
limited issue cover 78
2.11 Der Dada 2, ed. Raoul Hausmann, Berlin, 1919, front cover 80
2.12 Johannes Baader, “Collage Dada (Raoul Hausmann),” c. 1919,
Kunsthaus Zurich 81
3.1 Postcard from Tristan Tzara, Gino Cantarelli, and Otello Rebacci to
Francis Picabia, July 1920 93
3.2 Installation view, Erste Internationale Dada-Messe (“First
International Dada Fair”), Berlin, Summer 1920 98
3.3 Installation view, Salon Dada Exposition Internationale
(“International Exhibition”), Paris, 1921 100
3.4 Erste Internationale Dada-Messe (“First International Dada Fair”)
catalog, ed. John Heartfield and Wieland Herzefelde, Berlin, 1920,
Otto Burchard and Malik-Verlag 102
3.5 Salon Dada, Exposition Internationale (“International Exhibition”)
catalog, Paris, 1921, front cover 103