This publication, the first devoted exclusively to The Museum of Modern Art's unrivaled Dada collection, features some seventy works-books, collages, drawings, films, paintings, photographs, photomontages, prints, readymades, and reliefs-in large reproductions accompanied by in-depth, object-focused essays by an interdepartmental group of the Museum's curators. Catalyzed by the major Dada exhibition that appeared in 2005 and 2006 in Paris and Washington, D.C. and at MoMA, the book benefits from new scholarship generated by the extraordinary opportunity the exhibition created for an international community of scholars to examine the Museum's objects beside those on loan from other institutions. The book's unique object-centered approach provides unparalleled access to the themes at the heart of this revolutionary movement.

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

DADA IN THE COLLECTION: A PERMANENT PARADOX

PLATES

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

CONSERVATION

DRAWINGS

FILM

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

PHOTOGRAPHY

PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

CHRONOLOGY

ARCHIVES

REFERENCES

EXHIBITION HISTORY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART