It’s quite a feat to recapture the thrill of a century-old cultural insurgency, but Jed Rasula pulls it off with gusto in Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, a ...

THOUGH Jean (Hans) Arp was one of the original Cabaret Voltaire founders of Dada, his work has few of the qualities comm only associated with Dadaism. His images— mildly fantastic, and humorous in a ...

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a ...

If you're looking for a single definition of the anti-art movement known as Dada, you won't find it – try as you might – in Jed Rasula's excellent and comprehensive narrative biography, Destruction ...