4 Dada Suicides
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slipcase missing. Creased spine and corners.
In the fractured, electrifying world of early twentieth-century avant-garde, four voices burned brilliantly and briefly before being extinguished — 4 Dada Suicides presents the raw, unfiltered writings of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché, four figures whose lives and deaths became the ultimate acts of Dadaist defiance. This anthology gathers their letters, manifestos, prose poems, and provocations into a single volume, chronicling the philosophical restlessness of men who treated existence itself as an aesthetic problem and resolved it on their own terms. Published under the Anti-Classics of Dada imprint, this collection stands as both a literary monument and a cultural provocation, illuminating the radical anti-art spirit that shook the foundations of Western civilization after the carnage of World War I. Each contributor's work crackles with nihilism, dark wit, and an almost violent rejection of bourgeois convention, offering readers a window into the movement that seeded Surrealism, punk, and conceptual art. Edited and translated for an English-speaking audience, the volume forces an uncomfortable but necessary question: where does art end and self-destruction begin?
Author: Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, Jacques Vaché
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995, Cartas (Anti-Classics of Dada)
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slipcase missing. Creased spine and corners.
In the fractured, electrifying world of early twentieth-century avant-garde, four voices burned brilliantly and briefly before being extinguished — 4 Dada Suicides presents the raw, unfiltered writings of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché, four figures whose lives and deaths became the ultimate acts of Dadaist defiance. This anthology gathers their letters, manifestos, prose poems, and provocations into a single volume, chronicling the philosophical restlessness of men who treated existence itself as an aesthetic problem and resolved it on their own terms. Published under the Anti-Classics of Dada imprint, this collection stands as both a literary monument and a cultural provocation, illuminating the radical anti-art spirit that shook the foundations of Western civilization after the carnage of World War I. Each contributor's work crackles with nihilism, dark wit, and an almost violent rejection of bourgeois convention, offering readers a window into the movement that seeded Surrealism, punk, and conceptual art. Edited and translated for an English-speaking audience, the volume forces an uncomfortable but necessary question: where does art end and self-destruction begin?