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Raoul Hausmann is remembered primarily for the central role he played in Berlin Dada with his assemblages, photo-montages, and optophonetic poems, yet the vicissitudes of history caused his photography, an essential facet of his oeuvre, to be cast almost entirely into the shade.From 1927 on, Hausmann became an avid and restless photographer in Germany, in particular during his stays at the North Sea and Baltic coasts. While in exile in Ibiza after the Nazis came to power, he took an interest in the local populace and vernacular architecture, before emigrating again in 1936.During this intense decade, he reflected extensively on photography, developing a highly individual practice in the medium, simultaneously documentary and lyrical. This book reveals Hausmann's interwar photographic work in its entirety, and presents a detailed time line of his life.Accompanies the exhibitions, Raoul Hausmann: Photographs 1927-1936 at Le Point du Jour - Centre d'art Éditeur, Cherbourg-en Cotentin (24 September 2017 - 14 January 2018), and Raoul Hausmann: Vision in Action at Jeu de Paume, Paris (6 February - 20 May 2018).
Each of the eight chapters takes a period of up to forty years and examines the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual practitioners.-Back Cover.
In 1916 a meeting of artists, writers, émigrés and opposition figures took place in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Under the shadow of the First World War, this was the starting point for the dissemination of the artistic and literary style known as Dadaism.
In an era when technology, biology & culture are becoming ever more closely connected, 'The Dada Cyborg' explains how the cyborg as we know it today developed between 1918 & 1933 as German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes & fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism collects, updates, integrates and contextualizes the critic Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard's topic in all of these essays is the modernist writers', artists', and philosophers' linguistic and visual responses to a changed sense of reality and human nature. Beginning with an overview of the problematics of European modernism, Sheppard establishes the dialectical relationship between the cultural crisis that occurred during the period 1880-1936 and the different responses from European modernists and the avant-garde. With its combination of classic and new essays and its perspective on the theoretical avant-garde/modernism debate in the United States, Sheppard's volume should give the specialist as well as the general reader an insight into the highest sample of European scholarly discourse on this subject.
How Dada is to break its cultural accommodation and containment today necessitates thinking the historical instances through revised application of critical and theoretical models. The volume Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde moves precisely by this motive, bringing together writings which insist upon the continuity of the early twentieth-century moment now at the start of the twenty-first. Engaging the complex and contradictory nature of Dada strategies, instanced in the linguistic gaming and performativity of the movement’s initial formation, and subsequently isolating the specific from the general with essays focusing on Ball, Tzara, Serner, Hausmann, Dix, Heartfield, Schw...
Rien a priori ne pouvait laisser supposer que Raoul Hausmann, un des fondateurs à Berlin du mouvement Dada, connu dans les années 20 pour ses prises de position extrémistes et ses photomontages, puisse s'intéresser un jour à la construction traditionnelle de l'île d'Ibiza, à l'architecture, à l'ethnographie et à la photographie documentaire. Ce livre retrace le parcours étonnant d'un artiste marginal qui refusa de suivre les chemins de l'avant-garde qu'il avait lui-même balisés, pour porter son regard sur l'être humain et ses activités primordiales comme la danse, le chant, la poésie et la construction de sa maison. Cet ouvrage a été publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Raoul Hausmann, architecte - Ibiza, 1933-1936" présentée à la Fondation pour l'Architecture à Bruxelles du 30 octobre au 30 décembre 1990.