Hugo Ball—poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic—was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.
Flight Out of Time A Dada Diary
About the Book
Reviews
"A key document. . . . Indispensable for an understanding of the beginnings of the Dada movement and Dada in Zurich."—Rudolf Kuenzli, Director, International Dada Archive"In Flight Out of Time one can follow Dada's unfolding and expansion almost day-by-day."—Charles Haxthausen, coeditor, Berlin: Culture and Metropolis
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Introduction by John Elderfield
Chronology
Foreword to the 1946 Edition by Emmy Ball-Hennings
PART ONE
Prologue: The Backdrop
Romanticism: The Word and the Image
PART TWO
On the Rights of God and Man
Flight to the Fundamental
APPENDIX
Dada Manifesto
Kandinsky
Endnotes: Ball's Sources
Afterword by John Elderfield
Bibliography
Index