Dada Presentism by Maria Stavrinaki - 9780804798129

Dada PresentismAn Essay on Art and History\nAuthor(s): Maria Stavrinaki\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804798129, 978-0804798129\nSynopsis\nDada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art within it. The original (Berlin-based) Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their modern experience of time, she contends, anticipated the formulations of major historians such as Reinhart Koselleck and, more recently, Franois Hartog. The book explores Dada temporalities and concepts of history in works of art, artistic discourse, and in the photographs of the Berlin Dada movement. These photographsincluding the famous one of the First International Dada Fairare presented not as simple, transparent documents, but as formal deployments conform.