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Dadaglobe Reconstructed: A Discussion of the Artworks & Texts /
In conversation with Adrian Sudhalter & Mary Ann Caws
Moderated by Samantha Friedman

Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium

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In 1920 and 1921, Tristan Tzara, co-founder of the Dada movement, planned an ambitious anthology: Dadaglobe. This volume was to have been 160 to 300 pages long and printed in an edition of 10,000 copies. The project ran into budgetary and interpersonal problems and was never published. What remained after its demise were over 100 artworks and 100 texts that had been sent to Tzara for its pages, many of which were specifically created for it.

Adrian Sudhalter has spent the last six years identifying and locating the intended contributions to Dadaglobe and reconstructing this book based on indications Tzara left behind in his archive. Many of the artworks intended for Dadaglobe are considered icons of 20th century art, but their origin in this volume have long been forgotten.

This conversation between Sudhalter, an art historian and resident of the New York Public Library's Frederick Lewis Allen Memorial Room, and Mary Ann Caws, a world-renowned scholar and translator of Dada and Surrealist texts, moderated by MoMA Assistant Curator Samantha Friedman, considers the ways in which artworks and texts are transformed, translated, and transmuted on the printed page.

Also on view pop-up display 
Embracing Chaos: Dada, 100 Years Later 
Now Through September 6th, 2016

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
McGraw Rotunda, Third Floor