DADA’S CRADLE: AN EVALUATION OF ZURICH DADA’S SPACES AS TO CORPOREALITY

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2023-9-8

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Taleb, Ala

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The research focuses on the World War I period (1914-1918) to explore the relationship between bodies-spaces-media in Zurich Dada, which unfolds through its appropriation of performance, exhibition, and urban cultures, along with mediums of magazine, collage, and photography. It comprises three layers: the theoretical layer, where I review influential studies that explore the notion of avant-gardes (like the works of Peter Bürger, Matei Călinescu, Hal Foster, Richard Murphy, Marjorie Perloff, and Renato Poggioli) in light of various philosophies concerning the body and perception (including the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty); the historical layer, where I examine the institutional conditions under which Zurich Dada emerged, reacted against, and dissolved; and the historiographical layer, where, by exploring the relationship between verbal and non-verbal forms of expression in the practice of “history-writing,” I describe an interface that not only portrays the publication network of avant-garde movements in the early 20th century but also provides its bodily utilizers with multidimensional domains for making critical arguments.

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Dada, Zurich, Space, Body, Historiography

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105490

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis