Dada: Art and Anti-Art

Hans Richter, the artist and filmmaker closely associated with this radical movement from its earliest days, records and traces Dada’s history from its inception in wartime Zurich to its collapse in Paris in the 1920s, when many of its members joined the Surrealist movement, to the1960s when its spirit reemerged in movements such as Pop Art. This absorbing eyewitness narrative is enlivened by extensive use of Dada documents, illustrations, and texts by fellow Dadaists.

To celebrate one hundred years of Dada in 2016, Thames & Hudson reissued this unique document exactly as it first appeared in an expanded centenary edition. This edition features an introduction telling the story of how the book came about and an extended commentary that identifies Richter’s sources and brings the study up to date for a new generation of readers.