Dadaglobe
Dadaglobe was an anthology of the Dada movement slated for publication in 1921, but abandoned for financial and other reasons and never published. At 160 pages with over a hundred reproductions of artworks and over a hundred texts by some fifty artists in ten countries, Dadaglobe was to have documented Dada's apogee as an artistic and literary movement of international breadth. Edited by Dada co-founder Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) in Paris, Dadaglobe was not conceived as a summary of the movement since its founding in 1916, but rather meant to be a snapshot of its expanded incarnation at war's end. Not merely a vehicle for existing works, the project functioned as one of Dada's most generative catalysts for the production of new works.[1]
History
The Dadaglobe solicitation letter, sent from Paris in early November 1920, requested four types of visual submissions—photographic portraits (which could be manipulated, but should "retain clarity"); original drawings; photographs of artworks; and designs for book pages—along with prose, poetry, or other verbal "inventions." Contributors included
Some of Dada's most iconic artworks were created in direct response to the Dadaglobe solicitation letter: Ernst's self-portrait montage commonly known as Dadamax (The Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti) and his Chinese Nightingale,[2] Taeuber's Dada Head,[3] and Baargeld's Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld are just a few examples. These works were conceived by the artists with their presentation in reproduction foremost in mind. Dadaglobe was to have been a manifesto on the revised status of the artwork in reproduction.
The volume was advertised in Duchamp's and Man Ray's journal New York Dada in 1921: "Order from the publishing house 'La Sirène' 7 rue Pasquier, Paris, DADAGLOBE, the work of dadas from all over the world […] The incalculable number of pages of reproductions and of text is a guarantee of the success of the book."[4] When André Breton, later founder of Surrealism, saw the intended contents of the book, he remarked: "The grand album 'Dadaglobe' […] will soon appear. […] After the publication of this volume it will be impossible to contest Dada's artistic value."[5]
In scope, ambition, and even title, Tzara's Paris-based Dadaglobe, was modeled on Richard Huelsenbeck's Berlin-based, Dadaco, planned the previous year, but also abandoned and never published.[6] Dadaglobe reached an advanced stage of planning before financial and interpersonal obstacles put a halt to the project in spring 1921.
Dadaglobe Reconstructed
Numerous archival traces provide an indication of the intended contents of Dadaglobe. The French scholar Michel Sanouillet (1924-2015) rediscovered the abandoned project and, in 1966, published a selection of the texts intended for the original anthology.[7] On the occasion of Dada's centennial in 2016, American scholar Adrian Sudhalter published Dadaglobe Reconstructed, a book that includes a 160-page reconstruction of Dadaglobe within a scholarly context, accompanied by a preface by Sanouillet.[8] The publication accompanies Sudhalter's exhibition of the same name, on view at the Kunsthaus Zürich (February 5-May 1, 2016)[9] and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 12-September 18, 2016).[10]
Participants
Participants in Dadaglobe included:
- Louis Aragon (1897-1982), France
- Jean Arp (1886-1966), Germany, France
- Johannes Baader (1875 –1955), Germany
- Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927), Germany
- Egidio Bacchi (1897-1963), Italy
- Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969), Germany, Netherlands, France, USA
- Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957), Romania, France
- André Breton (1896-1966), France
- Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia (1881-1985), France
- Margueritte Buffet
- Gino Cantarelli (1899 – 1950). Italy
- Serge Charchoune (1889-1975), Russia, France
- Paul Citroen (1896-1983), Germany, Netherlands
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), France
- Jean Crotti (1886-1951), France, USA
- Paul Dermée (1886-1951), Belgium, France
- Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) Netherlands
- Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), France
- Suzanne Duchamp (1889-1963), France
- Jacques Edwards
- Paul Éluard (1895-1952), France
- Max Ernst (1891-1976), Germany, USA
- Julius Evola (1898-1974), Italy
- Aldo Fiozzi
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), Germany, USA
- Otto Griebel (1895-1972), Germany
- George Grosz (1893-1959), Germany, France, USA
- Job Haubric
- Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), Germany
- John Heartfield (1891-1968), Germany, USSR, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain
- Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Germany
- Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974), Germany
- Marcel Janco (1895-1984), Romania, Israel
- Adon Lacroix (1887–1975), Belgium, USA
- Clément Pansaers (1885-1922), Belgium
- Benjamin Péret (1899-1959), France
- Francis Picabia (1879-1953), France
- Man Ray (1890-1976), France, USA
- Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974), France
- Jacques Rigaut (1898-1929), France
- Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Germany
- Philippe Soupault (1897-1990), France
- Joseph Stella (1877-1946), Italy, USA
- Luise Straus (Armada von Duldgedalzen) (1893-1944), Germany
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), Switzerland, France
- Guillermo de Torre (1900-1971), Spain, France, Argentina
- Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romania, France
- Alfred Vagts (1892-1986), Germany, USA
- Edgar Varèse(1883–1965), France, USA
- Melchoir Vischer (1895-1975), Germany
- Fried-Hardy Worm
See also
References
- ISBN 978-3-85881-775-4
- ^ Max Ernst, The Chinese Nightingale (Le Rossignol chinois), 1920, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France
- ^ Celebrating Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s 127th Birthday, MoMA
- ^ Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, eds. New York Dada (single issue; April 1921), n. p. [2].
- ISBN 9783775734479
- ISBN 9780907033073
- ^ Michel Sanouillet, Le Dossier de Dadaglobe, in Cahiers de l'association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, no. 1 (1966), pp. 111–143.
- ISBN 978-3-85881-775-4
- ^ Dadaglobe Reconstructed. Kunsthaus Zurich
- ^ Dadaglobe Reconstructed. Museum of Modern Art
External links
- The International Dada Archive - at the University of Iowa has early Dada periodicals and includes online scans of publications
- Dadart - includes history, bibliography, documents, and news
- New York dada (magazine), Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, April, 1921 Archived 2022-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou (access online)