Dada and Existentialism: The Authenticity of Ambiguity

by Elizabeth Benjamin

Offering new critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of the Avant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassesses the movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy. Dada is often dismissed as an anti-art movement with a merely destructive theoretical impetus. French Existentialism is often condemned for its perceived quietist implications. However, closer analysis reveals a preoccupation with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137563672
• ISBN13: 9781137563675
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"