Dada in Paris (The MIT Press)

by Michel Sanouillet

Sharmila Ganguly (Translator)

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The long-awaited publication in English of the definitive book on Paris Dada.

Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. This first English-language edition of Sanouillet's definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to the author's monumental history (based on years of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, André Breton, and Francis Picabia.

Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde's riotous adolescence.

  • ISBN10 026251821X
  • ISBN13 9780262518215
  • Publish Date 14 September 2012 (first published 2 October 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press