It’s quite a feat to recapture the thrill of a century-old cultural insurgency, but Jed Rasula pulls it off with gusto in Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, a ...

Whenever a new school of painting and sculpture arises, somebody is bound to ask, "but is it art?" Almost a century later, you can still find people asking that question at Washington, D.C.'s National ...

If you're looking for a single definition of the anti-art movement known as Dada, you won't find it – try as you might – in Jed Rasula's excellent and comprehensive narrative biography, Destruction ...

One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada—was officially born in Zurich, Switzerland. World War I was in full ...