Acknowledgments

Foreword by Jack Flam

Preface

Introduction, by Robert Motherwell

List of Illustrations

PART I: PRE-DADA

1. Exhibition at the independents, by Arthur Cravan: 1914
2. Arthur Cravan and American Dada, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1938
3. Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments), by Erik Satie: 1912-13
i. What I Am
ii. The Day of a Musician

PART II: EN AVANT DADA: A HISTORY OF DADISM, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920

PART III: DADA FRAGMENTS, by Hugo Ball: 1916-17

PART IV: MERZ, by Kurt Schwitters: 1920

PART V: A DADA PERSONAGE

Two Letters, by Jacques Vaché (to André Breton): 1917-18

PART VI: SEVEN DADA MANIFESTOES, by Tristan Tzara: 1916-20

1. Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine
2. Dada Manifesto 1918
3. Proclamation without Pretension
4. Manifesto of mr. aa the anti-philosopher
5. Manifesto on feeble love and bitter love
Supplement: how I became charming delightful and delicious Colonial Syllogism

PART VII: HISTORY OF DADA, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: 1931

PART VIII: THE DADA SPIRIT IN PAINTING, by Georges Hugnet: 1932 and 1934

1. Zurich and New York
2. Berlin (1918-22)
3. Cologne and Hanover
4. Dada in Paris

PART IX: THREE DADA MANIFESTOES, by André Breton: Before 1924

1. For Dada
2. Two Dada Manifestoes
3. After Dada

PART X: MARCEL DUCHAMP, by André Breton: 1922

New York Dada, edited by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray
New York, April 1921. Facsimile

PART XI: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM ZURICH

Notes from a Dada Diary, by Jean (Hans) Arp. 1932
monsieur duval
vases with umbilical cords
sketch for a landscape
End of the World, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1916

PART XII: DADA FRAGMENTS FROM PARIS

(Two Poems), by Paul Eluard: 1921
Project for a History of Contemporary Literature, by Louis Aragon: 1922 Facsimile
The Magnetic Fields, by André Breton and Philippe Soupault: 1920

PART XIII: FROM THE ANNALS OF DADA

1. Zurich Chronicle, by Tristan Tzara: 1915-19
2. Collective Dada Manifesto, by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1920
3. Lecture on Dada, by Tristan Tzara: 1922

PART XIV: SOME MEMORIES OF PRE-DADA: PICABIA AND DUCHAMP, by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: 1949

La Pomme de Pins, edited by Francis Picabia St. Raphael
February 25, 1922. Facsimile

PART XV: THEO VAN DOESBURG AND DADA, by Kurt Schwitters: 1931

PART XVI: DADA LIVES! by Richard Huelsenbeck: 1936

PART XVII: DADA X Y Z..., by Hans Richter: 1948

PART XVIII: DADA WAS NOT A FARCE, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1949

Sophie, by Jean (Hans) Arp: 1946

Appendices

A. The Dada Case, by Albert Gleizes: 1920
B. A Letter on Hugnet's "Dada Spirit in Painting," by Tristan Tiara: 1937
C. Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist, by Harriet and Sidney Janis: 1945
D. Sound-Rel 1919, and Birdlike 1946, by Raoul Hausmann

Bibliography
Did Dada Die? a Critical Bibliography by Bernard Karpel (Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Index to Bibliography

Addenda: Dada Alive and Well, by Benard Karpel: 1981

Additional Bibliography

Dada Manifesto 1949, by Richard Huelsenbeck

An Introduction to Dada, by Tristan Tzara

General Index