Research Catalog

Title

Dada.

Publication

[Zurich : Mouvement Dada], 1917-1921.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963.
• Arp, Jean, 1887-1966.
• Janco, Marcel, 1895-1984.
• Prampolini, Enrico, 1894-1956.
• Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967.
• Richter, Hans, 1888-1976.
• Segal, Arthur, 1875-1944.
• Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971.
• Eggeling, Viking, 1880-1925.

Publication Date

1 (juil. 1917)-8 (sept. 1921).

Description

8 v. : ill.; 24-34 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Elaine Lustig Cohen Dada Collection ; 72-80.

Alternative Title

• Anthologie Dada 4/5
• Bulletin Dada no. 6
• Dada phone no. 7
• Dada au grand air 8
• Sängerkrieg in Tirol 8

Subjects

• Gouaches
• Dadaism > Switzerland > Periodicals
• Drawings

Genre/Form

• Drawings.
• Gouaches.

Note

• Title from cover.
• "Recueil littéraire et artistique"--No. 1-2.
• Editor: Tristan Tzara.
• Several issues also published in a limited edition, numbered and signed, with additional ill., including prints by Arp (Arntz no. 15, 37, 48).
• Place of publication varies. No. 6-7: Paris; no. 8: Tarrenz b. Imst., Tirol ; Paris.
• Nos. 1-4/5 printed by Jul. Heuberger, Zurich.
• The ill. in nos. 1-4/5 include 36 original woodcuts, by Jean Arp (15), Marcel Janco (9), Enrico Prampolini (3), Hilla de Rebay (1), Hans Richter (4), Arthur Segal (2), Raoul Hausmann (2); and 2 original lithographs, by Viking Eggeling. Six additional woodcuts by Arp in variant issues.

Indexed In (note)

• Bolliger, H. Dada in Zürich
• Meyer, R. Dada global
• Ades, D. Dada and surrealism reviewed
• Raabe, P. Zeitschriften des literarischen Expressionismus
• Arntz, W.F. Hans (Jean) Arp. (Arntz-Bulletin, 1. Bd., T. 3-10)

Numbering (note)

• Issue for May 1919 numbered 4/5.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital form on the International Dada Archive (University of Iowa Libraries) website.

Language (note)

• Texts in French and Italian (nos. 1-2); French (nos. 6-7); French, Italian and German (nos. 3-4/5, 8). Issues 3 and 4/5 also issued in variant editions for distribution in France, in which the German texts are replaced by French texts and some ill. differ; French ed. has 3 prints by Arp (Arntz no. 45-47) not present in the German ed.

Call Number

*KSD+++ (Dada)

OCLC

• 2251056
• NYPG01-S350

Title

Dada.

Imprint

[Zurich : Mouvement Dada], 1917-1921.

Indexed In:

Bolliger, H. Dada in Zürich, 87-90

Meyer, R. Dada global, 173-174, 252

Ades, D. Dada and surrealism reviewed, 3.40; p. 64-65

Raabe, P. Zeitschriften des literarischen Expressionismus, 34

Arntz, W.F. Hans (Jean) Arp. (Arntz-Bulletin, 1. Bd., T. 3-10), 11-12, 15, 28b, 30-37, 40-48

Numbering

Issue for May 1919 numbered 4/5.

Additional Formats

No. 1-7: Also available in digital form on the International Dada Archive (University of Iowa Libraries) website.

Language

Texts in French and Italian (nos. 1-2); French (nos. 6-7); French, Italian and German (nos. 3-4/5, 8). Issues 3 and 4/5 also issued in variant editions for distribution in France, in which the German texts are replaced by French texts and some ill. differ; French ed. has 3 prints by Arp (Arntz no. 45-47) not present in the German ed.

Local Note

Issue no. 2 is no. 21 of an unspecified edition; signed by Tzara and by Marcel Janco, who designed the cover ill.

Spencer Coll. has 3 copies of no. 3. Copy 1: Woodcut by Marcel Janco on front cover is hand col. by Janco. Copy 2: Provenance: Richard Huelsenbeck (from a group of Dada publications with punch holes in the inner margins). Copy 3: Woodcut on front cover is hand col.; from the limited deluxe ed., enclosed in gray cardboard portfolio with original gouache by Jean Arp stencilled in brown and yellow on front cover. Enclosed in second gray cardboard portfolio, with paper flyleaves tipped in; inscribed on front flyleaf: "Exemplaire no. 19. Tristan Tzara." Without the additional woodcut described by Bolliger and Arntz (no. 37).

Spencer Coll. has 2 copies of no. 4/5, both of issue with German texts included.

No. 6 (Spencer Coll. copy): Provenance: Richard Huelsenbeck (from a group of Dada publications with punch holes in the inner margins, here in the middle of the issue, which has been folded).

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Added Author

Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963.

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966. Wood engraver

Janco, Marcel, 1895-1984. Wood engraver

Prampolini, Enrico, 1894-1956. Wood engraver

Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967. Wood engraver

Richter, Hans, 1888-1976. Wood engraver

Segal, Arthur, 1875-1944. Wood engraver

Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971. Wood engraver

Eggeling, Viking, 1880-1925. Lithographer

Huelsenbeck, Richard, 1892-1974. Former owner

Distinct Title

Anthologie Dada 4/5

Bulletin Dada no. 6

Dada phone no. 7

Dada au grand air 8

Sängerkrieg in Tirol 8

Research Call Number

*KSD+++ (Dada) Library has: 2 (déc. 1917)-3 (déc 1918)

Spencer Coll. Swiss 1917 01-485 Library has: 1 (juil. 1917)-8 (sept. 1921).