Alivia VanDale
B1 IB1 History
Mr. Daugherty
11 January 2018
Annotated Bibliography
Ades, Dawn. “Dada and Surrealism.” Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism, Thames and Hudson, 2013, pp. 203–252.
In Ades’ chapter of this book, she illustrates the history of Dadaism, influential figures and events that occurred during the movement’s upbringing in different locations around Europe, and highlights different pieces that have meanings pertaining to the events surrounding WWI and afterwards. By implementing examples of writing samples and visual art pieces, Ades shows how the Dada movement came to be and how the climate post-WWI created a breeding ground for creativity to develop. This source is relevant to my investigation because the way
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Using Dada forms of speech and writing, Ball explains the conditions that WWI had brought upon the world and how artists have chosen to react, further saying that chaos has ensued and that he and other artists have chosen to rise above and seek to rebirth humanity. This is important to my internal because as a primary source from a renowned Dada artist, it’s important to gain a direct perspective on how artists viewed the effects of the war and how it directly ties or not ties to their art.
Bohn, Willard, translator. The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. Questia School, www.questiaschool.com/read/3092426/the-dada-market-an-anthology-of-poetry.
This source is a collection of Dada poetry from the years 1914 to 1923 that while at first may not make much sense but actually explain a lot about how the artists and poets of the time chose to rebel against the bourgeoisie Bohn’s goal is to show how poets at the time of the development of the Dada movement fought the system that ensued afterwords in unique and ways that were hard to understand on purpose. This source is relevant to my research because it includes primary sources that came directly from the time period that were written by pioneers of the Dada movement and embody the thoughts of the artists at the