Adam Pendleton
Black Dada Reader
bys Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Tom McDonough, Jenny Schlenzka, Susan Thompson

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Author(s)

Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Tom McDonough, Jenny Schlenzka, Susan Thompson

Publication, year

London : Koenig Books, 2017

Scope

352 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

ISBN

9783960981053

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The Black Dada Reader is a collection of texts and documents that exemplifies "Black Dada," a term the artist Adam Pendleton uses to define his artistic output. The Reader brings a diverse range of cultural figures into a shared cultural space, including Hugo Ball, W.E.B. Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, and Gertrude Stein, as well as artists from different generations, such as Joan Jonas and William Pope.L.. Black Dada is a way to talk about the future while talking about the past. It is our present moment. The Black Dada must use irrational language. The Black Dada must exploit the logic of identity. Black Dada is neither madness, nor wisdom, nor irony, nor naiveté.

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Person as subject

Adam Pendleton

Location

Cabinet 6 - 5: Kunstenaars

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