Collection on Dada
Collection Overview
Repository:
Guggenheim Archives
Title:
Collection on Dada
Identification:
A0066
Dates:
1916-1976 (bulk 1956-1966)
Quantity:
0.8 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:
The collection on
Dada was assembled by the Guggenheim library staff circa the 1970s for use as a research
tool. In February of 1916, Hugo Ball founded a literary cabaret/nightclub in a bar called
the Meierei in Zurich, Switzerland. Ball called his gathering the Cabaret Voltaire, which
almost immediately attracted a group of artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers who formed
the Dada movement. In the Dada Manifesto Tristan Zara described Dada as "…a protest with the
fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action…." The group was devoted, not only to
performances and exhibitions, but to publication of poems, stories, essays, and songs.
Around the same time, groups of artists, writers, and musicians in other countries and
cities, including New York, had similar ideas and an international artistic movement was
born.
Abstract:
The collection on
Dada documents a selection of the history of Dada from 1916 until 1976. This collection
contains exhibition invitations, fliers, posters, performance programs, newspaper and
magazine clippings, and reproductions of Dada publications. This small yet comprehensive
collection highlights events in New York, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Munich, Paris, Geneva, and
Zurich between 1966 and 1976. The subjects of the newspaper and magazine clippings center on
Dada and Neo-Dada. An original copy of Paul Dermée's Dada magazine Z1 is also included in
the collection.
Location:
CF
Language:
Collection is
primarily in English.
Arrangement:
Arranged in one alphabetical sequence by country, format, and title.
Restrictions:
The collection is unrestricted.
Publication Rights:
Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with
the Library and Archives.
Preferred Citation:
Collection on Dada. A0066. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives, New York, NY.
Subjects:
Arp, Hans, 1887-1966
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957
Breton, André, 1896-1966
Dermée, Paul
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Huelsenbeck, Richard, 1892-1974
Janco, Marcel, 1895-1984
Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
Sidney Janis Gallery
Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963
Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957
Breton, André, 1896-1966
Dermée, Paul
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Huelsenbeck, Richard, 1892-1974
Janco, Marcel, 1895-1984
Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
Sidney Janis Gallery
Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963
Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952
Bibliography
Motherwell, Robert. 1951. The Dada painters and poets; an anthology.
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz.
Richter, Hans. 1965. Dada: art and anti-art. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
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