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dadas women
the european dada movement of the early 20th century has long been regarded as a male preserve one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives girlfriends or sisters of dada men . this fascinating book challenges that assumption focusing on the creative contributions made to dada by five pivotal european women . ruth hemus establishes the ways in which emmy hennings and sophie taeuber in zurich hannah hoch in berlin and suzanne duchamp and celine arnauld in paris made important interventions across fine art literature and performance . hemus highlights how their techniques and approaches were characteristic of dadas rebellion against aesthetic and cultural conventions analyzes the impact of gender on each womans work and shows convincingly that they were innovators and not imitators . in its new and original perspective on dada the book broadens our appreciation and challenges accepted understandings of this revolutionary avant garde movement .
hardcover yale university press 2009 isbn13 9780300141481 isbn10 0300141483
abridged n isbn 13 9780300141481 number in series 1 number of pages 250 publisher yale univ pr release date 62135769600000