Zurich in Paris? : dada performance from the Cabaret Voltaire to Relache.
by
Amouzadeh, Neda. (orcid)namo-uzad-eh
Title
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Zurich in Paris? : dada performance from the Cabaret Voltaire to Relache.
Author
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Amouzadeh, Neda. (orcid)namo-uzad-eh
ISBN
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9780355883756
Personal Author
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Amouzadeh, Neda.
Publication Information
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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
Physical Description
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1 online resource (65 p.)
General Note
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.
Adviser: Juliet Bellow.
Abstract
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This thesis explores Francis Picabia's (1879-1953) collaboration with the avant-garde dance troupe the Ballets Suedois on the 1924 production Relâ che. I reveal this ballet's significant links to early performances in Zurich, the city of Dada's origins. While current scholarship deems Relâ che a Dada performance, there has been little analysis of its connection to the anarchic spirit that reigned in the Zurich cabaret. I make a case that Relâ che is much more than a work born out of personal rivalries between the project's collaborators, as is often remarked. Instead, I argue that this production reveals Picabia's rejection of the turn toward Surrealism within the Dada circles in Paris. The tensions within the Paris Dada group came to a head in 1921 with the staging of two Dada "Saisons, " or seasons, spearheaded by Picabia and the poets Tristan Tzara and Andre Breton. These differences, which ultimately led Breton to establish the Surrealist movement in 1924 catalyzed Picabia's critique in Relâ che . Through the ballet, Picabia declared his allegiance to an earlier conception of Dada, rooted in multimedia performances that took place at the Cabaret Voltaire and the Galerie Dada: Relâ che was conceived as a return to the provocative spirit of Dada's early days.
Local Note
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School code: 0008.
Subject Term
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Art history.
Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
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American University. Art.
Thesis Note
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Thesis (M.A.)--American University, 2018.
Field 805
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