THE DADA SPIRIT
Author: Emmanuelle de l'Écotais
Hardcover; $18.95 (Canada $29.95) UK: 12.95
6 1/4 x 8 1/4 /15.5 x 21.5cm
80 pages; 40 color & b/w photos

USA- Assouline Publishing, the illustrated book publishing house behind such cutting-edge titles as Rena Sindi's Be My Guest; Theme Party Savior Faire, Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking in New York City; Brooke De Ocampo's Bright Young Things, Lee Radziwill's Happy Times, Oscar De La Renta, The T-Shirt book, Hotel Stories, In The Spirit of the Hamptons, The Allure of Women and The Little Black Dress will release The Dada Spirit by Emmanuelle de l'Écotais. Dada. This onomatopoeia suggesting a child's babbling started one of the most important mutations in the history of art. But what is Dada? Born of the First World War, Dada is a movement bringing together both artists and writers. From Zurich in 1916, it spread rapidly to New York, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne and finally to Paris, where it died in 1924. Because of the diversity of its creations, the Dada movement is not an "ism" of the art world: there is no Dada "style," although a single spirit does govern the works of this movement which is at once anti-conformist, anti-bourgeois, and above all, anti-artistic. That's the spirit the author would like to explain through the texts, works of art and a few of the movement's protagonists: Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray, Picabia, Schwitters and Tzara.

Born in Brussels in 1968, Emmanuelle de l'Écotais received her Ph.D. in art history at Paris IV, the Sorbonne. She participated in the Dictionnaire mondial de la photographie, des origines à nos jours [World Dictionary of Photography, from its origins to today] (Larousse, 1994) and in the Collection de photographies du musée national d'Art moderne 1905-1948 [Collection of photographs from the musée d'Art moderne 1905-1948] (Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1996). Commissioner of the exhibit Man Ray, la photographie à l'envers [Man Ray, photography backwards] (Paris, Grand-Palais, 1998), she was also co-director and co-author of the work bearing the same title (Seuil/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998) as well as the exhibit's album (Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1998).


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