¿Qué es Dadá?

by Theo van Doesburg, Floris Verster (Translator)

Cofundador con Piet Mondrian del neoplasticismo de De Stijl, el holandés Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) fue también un destacado exponente del dadaísmo, movimiento europeo surgido en 1916 al que dio a conocer en Holanda con un panfleto titulado ¿Qué es Dadá?, publicado en 1923.

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1923

About the author

Theo van Doesburg (born Christian Emil Marie Küpper) was a Dutch artist who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms I. K. Bonset and Aldo Camini.

Reviews

[Nate D · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly pseudonymous dada writings from the founder of that other early modernist movement, de Stijl. Besides some Schwitters, I've yet to be really drawn in by any dadaist poetry, which makes up much of Van Doesburg's output, and his theorizing occasionally annoys (his analysis of why there are no female artists or thinkers, for instance -- really? This even ignores other dadaists). Yet, as a collection and recollection of his time and place (the excellent introduction covering the Dada Tour of the Netherlands, and his diary of the Weimar conference) this is interesting and irreplaceable. And finally, in several of the more cogent segments of his serialized "novel", The Other Sight, he actually hits some moments of fantastic absurdist-surreal storytelling. The Savinio-esque chapter proclaiming ARTIFICIALISM after a strange hotel stay, in particular. Overall, this one may be of more historical interest to me than literary, though, admittedly.

[Marlies · Rating 2 out of 5]

and yet I still don't have a good answer....apart from total chaos.