dadaism
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The Mother of Dada
Lit Hub shares images from Hannah Höch’s Life Portrait, a collection of collages from the master Dadaist’s long life of groundbreaking work. Höch’s collages explore the themes that characterize Dadaism, including fragmented identity and sexuality as the result of burgeoning…
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Who’s Your Dada?
Be the first on your block to download these eight Dada magazines from 1917 which contain all your favorite surrealist heroes. Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings—the whole gang is here. Celebrate the centennial of Dada and relive its origins…
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Never Say Nada to Dada
In 1920, Tristan Tzara put out a call to his fellow artists to contribute to an anthology to be called Dadaglobe. Many submitted but the book never happened. But fear not—the Museum of Modern Art in New York has put…
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Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion
Amy Fusselman gathers four writer-artists working in the poetry comics genre to discuss the emerging form.
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Paper Trumpets #29: Serpents/Babies
I like how these collages blend the cute innocence of 1950s clean-cut America with the slimy menace of tree-clinging serpents. It’s like a toddler version of the Garden of Eden.
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Paper Trumpets #15: Puffy Has Something
The images and text on this collage are from an old Christmas book called Baby’s First Christmas, a short picture book published in 1983. I took the story text (about 100 words) and re-arranged it into a sort of dada…
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Duchamp, [Redacting], and Readymades
The latest release from Gauss PDF, Marcel Duchamp’s The [Creative] Act, turns the Dada mastermind’s short lecture into a madlib-like text, rife with lacunae for reader participation and the sort of “No Image Available” error messages that indicate image errors…
