Dada art and antiart by richter, hans and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Richter s first contacts with modern art were in 1912 through the blaue reiter and in 19. Here he records and traces dada s history, from its inception in about. Antiart tends to conduct this questioning and rejection from the vantage point of art. First published in english in 1965, it completely changed the interpretation of dada from a literary phenomenon to an artistic one. Benson 16 politicization of the art of hans richter hans richter, munich dada, and the munich republic of justin hoffmann 48 workers councils hans richter. Emphasizing their antiindividualist convictions, van doesburg. Antiart is a looselyused term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Have just been through the art challenge short exhibition summaries as opposed to each chapter separately and it went.
Philippe alain michaud, konservator am centre pompidou, musee national dart. Hans richters firstperson narrative, describing in adamant detail the dada movement a storm that broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations is luxuriously rich in summarizing dada on all accounts, unraveling the misunderstandings that currently constitute the image of dada. Praludium, 1919, new haven connecticut, yale university art gallery. Here he records and traces dadas history, from its inception in about. Ever since, it has been the first port of call for anyone interested in the subject. Dada covered a wide spectrum of attitudes, from idealism to nihilism, from a limited rejection of traditional values to a denial of the idea of art, from semipolitical protest to pure love of disorder for its own sake. Hans richter 6 april 1888 1 february 1976 was a german painter, graphic artist, avantgardist, filmexperimenter and producer. Hans richter, the artist and filmmaker who helped start this radical movement, records dada s history, from its beginnings in wartime zurich, to its collapse in paris in the 1920s, to its reappearance in the 1960s in movements such as pop art. Art and antiart by richter, hans and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Calling all art historiansthose knowledgeable on art. Richters essay, the film as an original art form 1955 was a. As a member of the first dada group in zurich during the first.
In the mid 1950s, hans richter was living in new york city and teaching at the city. Foster 2 abstraction, autonomy, and contradiction in the timothy o. This book was set in helvetica by graphic composition, inc. Art and antiart world of art reprint by hans richter, david britt isbn. Hans richter, a dadaist himself, was an eyewitness to the movements creation in zurich at the cabaret voltaire and he writes with the authority of an insider, conveying the excitement and tension of the moment but does little more than catalog the dada moments, artifacts and personalities. Where and how dada began is almost as difficult to determine as homers birthplace, writes hans richter, the artist and filmmaker closely associated with this. Hans richter s firstperson narrative, describing in adamant detail the dada movement a storm that broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations is luxuriously rich in summarizing dada on all accounts, unraveling the misunderstandings that currently constitute the image of dada. Kunstlers hans richter 18881976 als erste institution in frankreich.
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