Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword by Jack Flam Preface Introduction, by Robert Motherwell List of Illustrations PART I: PRE-DADA 1. Exhibition at the independents, by Arthur Cravan: 1914 2. Arthur Cravan and American Dada, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1938 3. Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments), by Erik Satie: 1912-13 i. What I Am ii. The Day of a Musician PART II: EN AVANT DADA: A HISTORY OF DADISM, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920 PART III: DADA FRAGMENTS, by Hugo Ball: 1916-17 PART IV: MERZ, by Kurt Schwitters: 1920 PART V: A DADA PERSONAGE Two Letters, by Jacques Vache (to Andre Breton): 1917-18 PART VI: SEVEN DADA MANIFESTOES, by Tristan Tzara: 1916-20 1. Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine 2. Dada Manifesto 1918 3. Proclamation without Pretension 4. Manifesto of mr. aa the anti-philosopher 5. Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love Supplement: how I became charming delightful and delicious Colonial Syllogism PART VII: HISTORY OF DADA, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: 1931 PART VIII: THE DADA SPIRIT IN PAINTING, by Georges Hugnet: 1932 and 1934 1. Zurich and New York 2. Berlin (1918-22) 3. Cologne and Hanover 4. Dada in Paris PART IX: THREE DADA MANIFESTOES, by Andre Breton: Before 1924 1. For Dada 2. Two Dada Manifestoes 3. After Dada PART X: MARCEL DUCHAMP, by Andre Breton: 1922 New York Dada, edited by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray New York, April 1921. Facsimile PART XI: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM ZURICH Notes from a Dada Diary, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1932 monsieur duval vases with umbilical cords sketch for a landscape End of the World, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1916 PART XII: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM PARIS (Two Poems), by Paul Eluard: 1921 Project for a History of Contemporary Literature, by Louis Aragon: 1922 Facsimile The Magnetic Fields, by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault: 1920 PART XIII: FROM THE ANNALS OF DADA 1. Zurich Chronicle, by Tristan Tzara: 1915-19 2. Collective Dada Manifesto, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920 3. Lecture on Dada, by Tristan Tzara: 1922 PART XIV: SOME MEMORIES OF PRE-DADA: PICABIA AND DUCHAMP, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1949 La Pomme de Pins, edited by Francis Picabia St. Raphael February 25, 1922. Facsimile PART XV: THEO VAN DOESBURG AND DADA, by Kurt Schwitters: 1931 PART XVI: DADA LIVES! by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1936 PART XVII: DADA X Y Z..., by Hans Richter: 1948 PART XVIII: DADA WAS NOT A FARCE, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1949 Sophie, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1946 Appendices A. The Dada Case, by Albert Gleizes: 1920 B. A Letter on Hugnet's "Dada Spirit in Painting," by Tristan Tiara: 1937 C. Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist, by Harriet and Sidney Janis: 1945 D. Sound-Rel 1919, and Birdlike 1946, by Raoul Hausmann Bibliography Did Dada Die? a Critical Bibliography by Bernard Karpel (Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York) Index to Bibliography Addenda: Dada Alive and Well, by Benard Karpel: 1981 Additional Bibliography Dada Manifesto 1949, by Richard Huelsenbeck An Introduction to Dada, by Tristan Tzara General Index

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The single most instructive book on Dada… [T]he items collected are readable, pungent, and representative. It is one of those ‘essential works’ on twentieth-century art.
*T. J. Clark*