The artist Francis Picabia - notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker and polemicist - has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma of Dadaism. In this book, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines...
A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada. The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic...