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Launches an eight-volume series on the rebellious art form created during World War I by artists and writers in Zurich reacting to the horror of war, the onslaught of new technology, and the stifling aesthetics of futurism and cubism. In 11 essays, provides parameters for the historical and sociological context of the movement; its manifestation in visual arts, theater, the media, and literature; the correspondence between the actual works and the...

Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.

"Barbed wire cuts across more than just property, war zones and borders. This method of control has played a critical role in modern experience, whether it be domestic or political, for territorial expansion or border protection. But it has other histories too: those constructed through image and text in the arts, media and popular culture. These representations - in paintings, photography, poetry, personal memoirs, cartoons, advertisements and film...

Davis, a pioneer in the use of video tapes as an art form, observes that art is political, artists act collectively, content is an expression of the mind and a link with the outside world, and television should be an integral part of museums.

Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both a wider chronological and...