RUSSIAN DADA 1914

This is the first book to approach Russian avant-garde art from the perspective of the anti-art canons associated with the internati onal Dada movement. The works described and documented in Russian Dada were produced at the height of Dada's flourishing, between Wo rld War I and the death of Vladimir Leninwho, incidentally, was a frequent visitor to Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, the founding site of Dada. Like the Dadaists, the Russian avant-gardists whose works appear in this volume strove for internationalism, fused the ver bal and v...[Read more]