![]() ![]() ![]() In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of Dada, showing how this little-understood artistic phenomenon laid the foundation for culture as we know it today. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand another young man sneered at the audience, snapping a whip as he intoned his “Fantastic Prayers.” One of the artists called these sessions “both buffoonery and a requiem mass.” Soon they would have a more evocative Dada. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. ![]()
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