Destruction Was My Beatrice(English, Electronic book text, Rasula Jed)

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Destruction Was My Beatrice(English, Electronic book text, Rasula Jed) is written by Rasula Jed and published by Basic Books (AZ). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0465066941 (ISBN 10) and 9780465066940 (ISBN 13).

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mache into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these artists called the sessions "both buffoonery and a requiem mass." Soon they would be known by a more evocative name: Dada. In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we're still struggling to understand today.