| Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary Contributor(s): Ball, Hugo (Author), Elderfield, John (Editor), Raimes, Ann (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520204409 ISBN-13: 9780520204409 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: Hugo Ball (1886-1927)--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, and mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time. 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, edited by John Elderfield, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with Elderfield's critical introduction and a new afterword, the original Dada manifesto, and a new selected bibliography of works by and about Hugo Ball and general works on Dada. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | European |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 95039016 |
| Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.86" W x 8.22" (0.96 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |