Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary / Edition 1

by Hugo Ball, John Elderfield, Ann Raimes

Overview

Hugo Ball—poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic—was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520204409
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/06/1996
Series:	Documents of Twentieth-Century Art
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Hugo Ball (1886-1927) was the author of Herman Hesse, His Life and Work and Flight Out of Time, his edited diaries from 1910-1921, published in German editions in 1927. John Elderfield is Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the author of books on Henri Matisse, Kurt Schwitters, and others.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Introduction by John Elderfield
Chronology

Foreword to the 1946 Edition by Emmy Ball-Hennings

PART ONE
Prologue: The Backdrop
Romanticism: The Word and the Image

PART TWO
On the Rights of God and Man
Flight to the Fundamental

APPENDIX
Dada Manifesto
Kandinsky

Endnotes: Ball's Sources
Afterword by John Elderfield
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Covering 1920- 1921, these journals offer an intimate glimpse into the founder of Cabaret Voltaire, the avant-garde hot spot that served as the birthplace of Dada. (May)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Published posthumously in 1974, Ball's work chronicles the beginnings of the Dada movement in Europe between 1910 and 1921.

Library Journal