Dada Magazines

Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse non-hierarchical transnational and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This book the first of its kind to critically examine the place of Dada periodicals within the art movement redefines 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. Including magazines from the well-known Dada cities of New York and Paris as well as the lesser-known cities of Zagreb and Bucharest the book reveals that Dada continued to inspire art journals well into the 1920s. Anchored in close material analysis within a historical and theoretical framework Dada Magazines models a novel multifaceted methodology for assessing many kinds of periodicals. The book traces how the Dadaists―Marcel Duchamp Tristan Tzara Dragan Aleksic Hannah Höch and many others―compiled printed distributed and exchanged these publications. At the same time it recognizes the journals as active agents that engendered the Dada network and its thematic chronological structure captures the constant exchanges that took place in this network. With in-depth scrutiny of these magazines―and 1970s “Dadazines” inspired by them―Dada Magazines is a vital source in the histories of art and design periodical studies and modernist studies.