Virgin microbe : essays on Dada / edited by David Hopkins and Michael White.
| Other author | Hopkins, David, 1955- |
| Other author | White, Michael, 1969- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014] |
| Description | vii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | AGM studies Avant-garde and modernism studies. ^A379673 |
| Contents | Introduction / David Hopkins and Michael White -- Part one. Dada's dissemination -- Dada geographies / Timothy O. Benson -- Tristan Tzara's "international of the mind" : Dadaglobe (1920-1921) / Adrian Sudhalter -- Some reflections on the margins of Dada / Hubert van den Berg -- Psrt two. Dada metaphysics -- "The uncorrupt image" : Hugo Ball, Zurich Dada, and the aesthetics, politics, and metaphysics of asceticism / Debbie Lewer -- Duchamp's metaphysics : dust breeding / David Hopkins -- Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau : arche-texture as Kunststuck / Rainer Rumold -- Space, time, and Raoul Hausmann's Tete mecanique : Berlin Dada and Jewish neo-Kantianism / Michael White -- Part three. Dada identities -- Blinds and blackness : looking again at Tristan Tzara / Elizabeth Legge -- "Swallows, parrots, and the cacadou superieur" : Arp as self-translator / Eric Robertson -- Part four. Dada and mass culture -- Dada and kitsch : cultivation of the trivial / Sherwin Simmons -- "Every man his own football" : Dada Berlin, sport, and Weimar culture / Andreas Kramer -- Cardboard toys and dancing marionettes : play, materiality and agency in Zurich Dada / Joyce Suechen Cheng. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2013019006 |
| ISBN | 9780810129399 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0810129396 (cloth : alk. paper) |