Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
Jun 2015 · Hachette UK
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In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâché into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these artists called the sessions “both buffoonery and a requiem mass.” Soon they would be known by a more evocative name: Dada.
In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we’re still struggling to understand today.
In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we’re still struggling to understand today.
In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young m...
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Jed Rasula is the author of Tabula Rasula: being a book of audible visual matters (1986), editor of the poetry magazine Wch Way (1976-83), and concocted Imagining Language with Steve McCaffery 1998). Author also of numerous scholarly books and articles, Rasula taught at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario from 1990-2001, departing (unsuccessfully) on September 11, 2001, to take up his current position as Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia, deep (very deep) in the Bible Belt.
Jed Rasula is the author of Tabula Rasula: being a book of audible visual matters (1986), editor of the poetry magazine Wch Way (1976-83), and concocted Imagining Language with Steve McCaffery 1998). Author also of numerous scholarly books and articles, Rasula taught at Queen's University in King...
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