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Author:

Jones, Amelia.

Title:

Irrational modernism : a neurasthenic history of New York Dada / Amelia Jones.

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dadaism--New York.--New York.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Gender identity in art.
Feminism and the arts--New York.--New York.
Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von,--1874-1927.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]- 313) and index.

Contents:

1. The Baroness and Neurasthenic art history -- 2. War / Equivocal masculinities -- 3. Dysfunctional machines / Dysfunctional subjects -- 4. The city / Wandering, neurasthenic subjects -- 5. "Death in reverse": a provisional conclusion.

Summary:

"In Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones gives us a history of New York Dada reinterpreted in relation to the life and works of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Jones enlarges our conception of New York Dada beyond the male avant-garde heroics of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia to include the rebellious body of the Baroness. If they practiced Dada, she lived it, with her unorthodox personal life, wild assemblage objects, radical poetry and prose, and the flamboyant self-displays by which she became her own work of art. Through this reinterpretation, Jones not only provides a revisionist history of an art movement but also suggests a new method of art history."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9780262600668 (pbk.)
0262600668 (pbk.)
9780262101028 (hc : alk. paper)
0262101025 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52471740

LCCN:

2003056245

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)