Hugo Ball--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.
- ISBN10 0670318418
- ISBN13 9780670318414
- Publish Date 30 December 1974
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Random House India
- Imprint Penguin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English