DADA 4-5: Anthologie Dada

Tristan Tzara, editor

1896–1963

DADA 4-5: Anthologie Dada, 1919

Where object was made: Switzerland

Material/technique: mixed media; including original prints; line drawings and tipped-in halftone reproductions

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 28 x 19.2 x 0.2 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 11 x 7 9/16 x 0 1/16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund

Accession number: 2005.0193

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"Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard
This issue of DADA magazine, although published after the War, was something of an anthology of the group's activities in Zurich at the famous Cabaret Voltaire. During the war years neutral Switzerland was home to numerous political refugees including many artists and writers. The Dadaists channelled their revulsion at World War I into an indictment of the nationalist and materialist values that had brought it about.

This issue was printed in Zurich shortly after the end of the War and at a time when the Dada Movement was emerging with renewed vigor in Berlin, Paris, Hannover, Cologne, and elsewhere. It includes original prints (predominently woodcuts) by Hans Arp, Viking Eggeling, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Janco, and Hans Richter; and texts by Pierre Albert-Birot, Paul Aragon, Hans Arp, André Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, Jean Cocteau, Raoul Hausmann, Ferdinand Hardekopf, Richard Huelsenbeck, Francis Picabia, Raymond Radiguet, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hans Richter, Walter Serner, Philippe Soupault, and Tristan Tzara.