Dada Magazines

Emily Hage

"Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This authoritative, first volume entirely devoted to critical analysis of Dada periodicals retells the story of Dada by demonstrating the centrality of these graphically inventive, provocative periodicals: Dada, New York Dada, Dada Jok, and dozens more that began crossing enemy lines during World War I. The book includes well-known Dada centres like New York and Paris as well as cities such as Zagreb and Bucharest, and reveals that Dada continued to inspire art journals into the 1920s, years after most accounts of the movement end. Anchored in close material analysis within a historical and theoretical framework, Dada Magazines models a novel, multifaceted methodology for assessing all kinds of periodicals. Borrowing from Actor-Network Theory, it...