Dada bodies : between battlefield and fairground /
A comprehensive study of Dada's images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a blueprint of th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: spare parts; Zurich Dada: between gas mask and carnival dance; Shooting the classical body; Hybrid bodies (I): the impossible machine; Hybrid bodies (II): the grotesque; Performance spaces: fairground, cabaret, exhibition; Death and rebirth: corpse or chrysalis; Fluid bodies, shifting identities; Dada's Africa; Limit-bodies; Conclusion: exquisite corpses; Bibliography; Index