Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York

by Francis M. Naumann

Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York, the catalogue for the landmark exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1996, proposes that Dada was not only important to the growth of American modernism, but that the ferment of New York played a critical role in the continuing photographs, and related documentary material records the achievements of the French emigres Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, the American expatriate Man Ray, as well as American artists Charles Demuth, Katherine Dreier, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Florine Stettheimer, Clara Tice, and Beatrice Wood.

Genres: Art, History

304 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[sslyb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally, a book about Dada that is fun! Making Mischief is an accompanying book to an exhibit at the Whitney held in 1996. Lots of reproductions, insightful essays and a wonderful chronology of events from 1913-1925.

[Jest · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the catalogue from the 1996 exhibition at the Whitney. The reproductions are nice. The accompaning essays are even better.

[Daniel M.A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mindboggling new insights on the early years of Dadaism in NewYork. This said, the whole field of American Modernism and how it evolved gets into the spotlight. At the time released as a catalogue by the Whitney Museum of Art it can also be read as an aditional source-book of valid information for researchers. For all of us others it is also a book for looking at. It is superbly designed and illustrated. Did you know the 'art fanzine' printed by artists themselves was invented already in 1917?