(MENAFN- The Conversation) Digital archives have become powerful platforms for women artists who were excluded from official art history , allowing them to claim their rightful place posthumously.

Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism (image courtesy of Stanford University Press) Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces. The ...

Just over 100 years ago, on Feb. 5, 1916, a small group of artists and writers gathered in the back room of a Zurich tavern. They had been invited there by Hugo Ball, a German poet and playwright ...

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a ...

THOUGH Jean (Hans) Arp was one of the original Cabaret Voltaire founders of Dada, his work has few of the qualities comm only associated with Dadaism. His images— mildly fantastic, and humorous in a ...

“In Zurich, not involved in the slaughterhouses of the world war, we dedicated ourselves to the fine arts. While in the distance gunfire rumbled, we glued paper, read our works, wrote poetry, and sang ...

Digital archives have become powerful platforms for women artists who were excluded from official art history, allowing them to claim their rightful place posthumously. However, amid the legitimate ...

But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves, until now. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1920s Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was known as 'the Living Dada.' (Library of Congress) Digital archives have become ...

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