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Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) This multivolume definitive reference is one of the most intensive accounts of art during the WW I era. The emergence of modernism is linked clearly to this movement. Dada afterwards exploded on the scene in other art capitals of the world: Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, even New York. Participants in the Dada movement included some of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber Arp, Hans Richter, George Grosz, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Hanna Hoch, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp and others alarmed critics and incited outrage by throwing into question every possible preconceived notion about art and life. The Dada Movement offered one of the first, most systematic and perhaps most probing diagnoses of what has been described as the "crisis of modernism." The model for critique found in Dada art, theater and literature continues to influence the present profoundly. Each volume of Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, under the general editorship of art historian Stephen C. Foster contributes to an examination of the Dada movement unprecedented in its depth and scope. This series features ten volumes that provide an introduction to the movement, a series of historical studies arranged geographically, a history of the movement's reception and an extensive bibliography.

The General Editor: Stephen C. Foster is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Iowa and former director of the Fine Arts Dada Archive and Research Center located there since 1979. Concentrating on European art of the World War I era, Professor Foster's publications include Dada Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt (1979) with Rudolf Kuenzli, Dada/Dimensions (1985), The Avant-garde and the Text (1987) with Estera Milman, and "Event" Art and Art Events (1988).

Volume I: Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) provides parameters for the historical and sociological context of Dada. In a collection of essays from internationally respected scholars, this volumes offers a nuanced explanation of Dada?s appearance in the visual arts, theater, media and literature. It further examines the relatinship between the various manifestos of the Dada movement and the artwork that came out of it. Finally essayists address the relevance of the study of Dada to contemporary issues and concerns. 0816173540
Volume II: Dada Zurich: A Clown's Game For Nothing by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) Essays in this volume examine the social, psychological and political atmosphere that made Zurich the center for revolutionary changes in Europe and around the world. Essayists discuss the "Happenings" and "performances" within aesthetic, sociopolitical and anthropological contexts. Other topics covered include Dada's laughter, the establishment and development of Cabaret Voltaire, the exhibition and events at the Galerie Dada and the periodicals that emerged from the Zurich Dada movement. 0816173281
Volume III: Dada Cologne Hanover by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) This volume combines two works, Rage and Liberation: Dada in Cologne and Hanover Dada: Transaction, Transformation and the Tradition of Modernism. Written by Charlotte Stokes, Rage and Liberation discusses Ithe brief coalition between individuals committed to radical political action and innovation in the arts, while Hanover Dada, edited by Stephen C. Foster, presents this face of Dada as a complex phenomenon that extended beyond the artwork of Kurt Schwitters 0816173265
Volume IV: The Eastern Dada Orbit: Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Central Europe, and Japan by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) is composed of two distinct parts and describes two largely unexplored aspects of Dada. The first, Dada in Central and Eastern Europe (including the former Soviet Union), edited by Gerald Janecek, was a previously closed field that scholars have since discovered reveals the significant influence of Dada on the region. The second part of this volume, Tada=Dada (Devotedly Dada) for the Stage: The Japanese Dada Movement 1920-1925, focuses upon the equally under researched area of Dada in Japan. Toshiharu Omuka traces the particular place of Dada within the dynamic development of Japanese modernism. 081610588X
Volume V: Berlin Dada 1917-1923: Dada Conquers! by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) This volume not only presents the history of the Dada movement in Germany's capital, but also its philosophical concepts and political conflicts. 0816173559
Volume VI: Paris Dada: The Barbarians Storm the Gates by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) Paris Dada stands apart from the other Dada-doms treated in this series because of the sometimes complicated interaction between the French writers and artists associated with the movement and the band of avant-garde foreigners who flocked to Paris at the end of World War I. These foreigners -- Tzara, Picabia, Man Ray, Iliazd, et al -- were largely uninfluenced by the French tradition of mainly civil art and a call to "return to order" after the war. In this volume, editor Elmer Peterson has brought together essays that clearly show the interaction between the newcomers and the Parisian Dadaists that shaped this time in the history of the radical art movement. 0816173745
Volume VII: The Western Dada Orbit: The United States, Italy and Spain, and Holland and Belgium by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) In The Import of Nothing, the seventh volume in G.K. Hall's Crisis in the Arts series, Hubert van den Berg chronicles the history of the Dada art movement in Belgium and the Netherlands -- the Low Countries -- of Europe. It explores the reception of Dada within the two nations as a conceptual proposition and avant-garde project from the neighboring countries of Switzerland, France, and Germany. It is a story of active resistance by the conservative Belgian and Dutch art scene and the valiant yet ambivalent efforts of such artists as Theo van Doesburg and Clement Pansaers to introduce the modernist chaos of Dada. 0816173869
Volume VIII: New York Dada by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) Pending
Volume IX: The Press Responds to Dada by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) Pending
Volume X: Bibliography by Stephen C. Foster, general editor (G.K. Hall & Co., Gale Research) Pending

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