The DADA Reader: A Critical Anthology
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Editor: Dawn AdesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-15
ISBN: 0226006980
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Book Review: A good collection of historic Dada reviews, although there is little critical about the anthology.
Summary: 3 Stars
A good collection of historic Dada reviews, although there is little critical about the anthology.
While not comprehensive (maybe that is what the editor meant by critical) the volume offers a pretty good recollection of texts, in historical orders essentially as they were publishes in several magazines (reviews) across Europe as DADA developed.
Some illustrations, and covers for the reviews, feel short of giving the feeling of the original publications, in the sense that often one feels that might be loosing a lot of the layout work that was quite significant in this offerings.
However, the most uncomfortable aspect of the book might be its translations. Obviously a historic Dada English volume is all a series of translations by a variety of authors, and while Dada was rather quirky in these incarnations, there is a sense of somewhat clumsy translations, in particular during the first half of the volume.
In any case, some of the texts offered are rather interesting in the dialectical maze that Dada produced, and remain an interesting insight to revisit its influence. But for the most part the book stops there offering little analysis of the context and repercussions of these documents.
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