czech dada

Featuring Czech Dada Narrating the history of Czech Dada is a slippery undertaking. There are the facts: Hausmann and Huelsenbeck toured the country in 1920, performing Dada in Teplice, Prague and Karlovy Vary to great confusion and acclaim; in 1921 Hausmann returned, this time with Kurt Schwitters in tow, and the two performed phonetic poems and other Dada oddities in Prague again.
Jindřich Toman: Now you see it, now you don’t Dada in Czechoslovakia, with notes on high and low
Ladislav Klíma: The Journey of the Blind Snake in Search of Truth The Journey of the Blind Snake in Search of Truth is the introductory, somewhat abridged chapter of Der Gang der blinden Schlange zur Wahrheit, a German novel worked on jointly by Ladislav Klíma and his friend Franz Böhler during 1917-18.
Gerald Janecek: Dada in Central and Eastern Europe In Eastern Europe the individual national agendas for avant-garde activities were often quite different from those in Western Europe. Primary among these differences was the issue of independent national identity, brought to the fore by the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.
MILOSLAV TOPINKA The Dada movement in relation to the Czech inter-war avant-garde
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