Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
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Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. 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 name: Dada.
A globe-spanning narrative that resurrects some of the 20th century’s most influential artistic figures,Destruction Was My Beatrice describes how Dada burst upon the world in the midst of total warand how the effects of this explosion are still reverberating today.