Dada And Existentialism

Author : Elizabeth Benjamin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137563682

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Dada and Existentialism by Elizabeth Benjamin Pdf

Offering new critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of the Avant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassesses the movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy. Dada is often dismissed as an anti-art movement with a merely destructive theoretical impetus. French Existentialism is often condemned for its perceived quietist implications. However, closer analysis reveals a preoccupation with philosophy in the former and with art in the latter. Moreover, neither was nonsensical or meaningless; both reveal a rich individualist ethics aimed at the amelioration of the individual and society. The first major comparative study of Dada and Existentialism, this text contributes new perspectives on Dada as movement, historical legacy, and field of study. Analysing Dada works through Existentialist literature across the themes of choice, alienation, responsibility, freedom and truth, the text posits that Dada and Existentialism both advocate the creation of a self that aims for authenticity through ambiguity.

Author : Richard Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520073703

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Memoirs of a Dada Drummer by Richard Huelsenbeck Pdf

Huelsenbeck’s memoirs bring to life the concerns—intellectual, artistic, and political—of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674185005

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The Dada Painters and Poets by Robert Motherwell Pdf

Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.

Author : Seth Taylor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110853414

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Left-Wing Nietzscheans by Seth Taylor Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.

Author : Hans van Stralen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9052012733

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Choices and Conflicts by Hans van Stralen Pdf

This book approaches literary existentialism (1935-1960) from a philosophical point of view and provides a semantic frame through which the primary works of this movement can be interpreted. Readings of Sartre, Sábato, Camus, Böll, De Beauvoir, Nooteboom, and others emphasize the place and themes specific to each writer within literary existentialism as a whole. One of the most original features of this study is its focus on the central notion of 'engagement' after 1960. Having highlighted its waning in postmodernism, van Stralen then demonstrates the vigorous resurgence of this pivotal concept in postcolonial discourses.

Author : Stephen Forcer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351570251

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Dada as Text, Thought and Theory by Stephen Forcer Pdf

The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering English translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics - including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics - in order to get beyond Dada's typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary.

Author : Brandon Pelcher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031266102

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Dada's Subject and Structure by Brandon Pelcher Pdf

Dada’s Subject and Structure argues that Dadaist praxis was far more theoretically incisive than previous scholarship has indicated. The book combines theoretical frameworks surrounding ideological subject formation with critical media and genre histories in order to more closely read Dadaist techniques (e.g. montage, irony, nonsense, etc.) across multiple works. These readings reveal both Dada’s preternatural focus on the discursive aspects of subject formation—linguistic sign, literary manifesto, photographic image, commodity form/aesthetics, which comprise the project’s chapters—and on Dada’s performative sabotage and subversion of them. In addition to highlighting commonalities between Dadaist works, artists, and chapters previously imagined disparate, the book shows how Dada simultaneously prefigured structuralist theories of subject formation and pre-performed post-structuralist critiques of those theories.

Author : Alan Young
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 071900943X

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Dada and After by Alan Young Pdf

Author : Edwin Murillo
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837720019

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Latin America and Existentialism by Edwin Murillo Pdf

Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.

Author : Koral Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317177395

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Augenblick by Koral Ward Pdf

Augenblick, meaning literally 'In the blink of an eye', describes a 'decisive moment' in time that is both fleeting yet momentously eventful, even epoch-makingly significant. In this book Koral Ward investigates the development of the concept into one of the core ideas in Western existential philosophy alongside such concepts as anxiety and individual freedom. Ward examines the whole extent of the idea of the 'decisive moment', in which an individual's entire life-project is open to a radical reorientation. From its inception in Kierkegaard's works to the writings of Jaspers and Heidegger, she draws on a vast array of sources beyond just the standard figures of 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, finding ideas and examples in photography, cinema, music, art, and the modern novel.

Author : Graham Bader
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300257083

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Poisoned Abstraction by Graham Bader Pdf

A definitive resource, full of fresh insights and new revelations, on one of the most influential interwar artists This richly illustrated book offers a definitive new assessment of the oeuvre of Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), a central figure of the interwar European avant-garde. Active as an artist, designer, publisher, performer, critic, poet, and playwright, Schwitters is best known for intimately scaled, materially rich collages and assemblages made from found objects--often refuse--that the artist described as having lost all contact with their role and history in the world at large. Considering works reaching from Schwitters's earliest collage-based pieces of 1918-19, through his 1920s advertising designs, to his seminal environmental installation the Merzbau, Graham Bader carefully unpacks the meaning behind such projects and sheds new light on the tumultuous historical conditions in which they were made. In the process, he reveals a new Schwitters--aesthetically committed and politically astute--for our time. This authoritative account reframes our understanding of Schwitters's multifaceted artistic practice and explores the complex entwinement of art, politics, and history in the modern period.

Author : Willy Verkauf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015001231480

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Dada by Willy Verkauf Pdf

Author : Thomas P. Brockelman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0810117754

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The Frame and the Mirror by Thomas P. Brockelman Pdf

If the postmodern is a collage--as some critics have suggested--or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way of understanding the world? The Frame and the Mirror uses this question to probe the distinctive character of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation. Brockelman's work is itself a collage of sorts, using juxtapositions of critics and art historical figures to conduct a debate between such figures as Karsten Harries, Gianni Vattimo, Rosalind Krauss, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Slavo Zizek, and Le Corbusier about issues such as truth in art, perspectivism, theatricality, the sublime, psychoanalytic theory, politics, and urbanism. More than an introduction to the postmodern, The Frame and the Mirror advances our understanding of the contemporary world by relating its features to the peculiar characteristics of collage. Ultimately, Brockelman shows how collage demands that we reinterpret modernity, conceiving of it as suspended between a loss of certainty and a new kind of knowledge about the human condition. In doing so, his work challenges many of the claims made in the name of postmodernism--and offers in their place a new and ironic view of the cultural space in which contemporary and historical events occur.

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253028532

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Existential Semiotics by Eero Tarasti Pdf

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

Author : Willy Verkauf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015008380472

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Dada, Monographie Einer Bewegung by Willy Verkauf Pdf