Edited by Leah Dickerman with Matthew S. Witkovsky

The studies of artists and concepts in this volume present Dada as a prodigiously creative avant-garde that cohere, for all their diversity, around the radical reinvention of the nature of the art object. Among the strategies elaborated are the appropriation and transformation of the structures of a new media culture and marketplace, the performance of forms of modern identity, and the reworking of history and memory. Filling a broad gap in the history of modern art, this collection of 12 essays offers both an important revision of our understanding of this influential movement and a starting point for reflection on the origins of many forms of contemporary artistic practice. 

Published by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in association with Distributed Art Publishers.