Table of Contents

• Preface
• Illustrations
• Introduction: Against the ‘Infamous Thing’
• 1. Dada’s Radical Negation: The Declamators and Poets of Noise
• 2. Becoming the Dada Body: Masks, Dance and Mime
• 3. A Disintegrating Culture: Dada Violence and Degradation
• 4. Dadaist Disgust: Ideology Theory and the Manifesto Writings
• 5. Hans Arp: Resistance and the Philosophy of Virtual Creation
• 6. L’amiral cherche une maison à louer: The Counterpoint and Counterpolitics of Language
• 7. The Rude Product of Luxury: Dada Laughter
• Conclusion: Permanent Dada
• Appendix: Zurich Dada Chronology
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Dafydd Jones completed his doctoral study of proto-dadaist Arthur Cravan at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, and lectured in art history, theory and practice for the Open University and at Cardiff School of Art between 1995–2010, where he remains faculty associate. He was formerly visiting researcher to the International Dada Archive and Research Centre at the University of Iowa, and is participant in critical interventions in reading the avant-garde – notably the Avant-Garde Project at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow (2000–7) and the landmark series Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada (1996–2005); he edited the volume Dada Culture (2006) and is currently the Editor of the University of Wales Press and translator of classic European bande dessinée.