Angelika Hoerle

Angelika Hoerle. Comet of the Cologne Avant-garde
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
September 26, 2009-January 17, 2010
exhibition flyer

Angelika Fick Hoerle (1899-1923) lived hard and died young. In spite of her youth, she left a promising artistic legacy. Moving through the influences of WW I, the German Revolution and Dada, she developed artistic styles that foreshadowed Surrealism and the Cologne Progressives.

Angelika's apartment in Lindenthal, the ‘dadaheim' with its Schloemilch Verlag, was both a meeting place and the publishing house for Max Ernst's Fiat Modes and the international Dada magazine, Die Schammade. Nicknamed "Dada Angelika" by friends and dubbed the German Master of Dada by a newspaper, Angelika went on to co-found the Stupid Group and become a voice for women along with her best friend Marta Hegeman. When Angelika died of tuberculosis at 22 years of age, her brother, the artist Willy Fick, paid the back rent on the apartment where she had lived alone since the fall of 1922; he wanted to save her things. Willy Fick hid Angelika's works, and those of her politically active friends, from the National Socialists when the artists represented were labelled degenerate.

See also: Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).

Dada in Paris

Dada in Paris
By Michel Sanouillet; Michèle Humbert, Editorial Consultant; Translated by Sharmila Ganguly; Revised and Expanded by Anne Sanouillet
MIT Press : Cambridge MA, 2009
640 pp.
ISBN-10: 0-262-01303-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01303-1

Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early twentieth-century avant-garde. This first English-language edition of Sanouillet's definitive work (a translation of the expanded 2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to the author's monumental history (based on years of research, including personal involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara, André Breton, and Francis Picabia.

Publication : Dada's Women

Dada's Women
Ruth Hemus
Yale University Press, New Haven
2009
250 p., 60 b/w + 20 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300141481 / 0300141483.

The European Dada movement of the early 20th century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends, or sisters of Dada men. This fascinating book challenges that assumption, focusing on the creative contributions made to Dada by five pivotal European women.

Ruth Hemus establishes the ways in which Emmy Hennings and Sophie Taeuber in Zurich, Hannah Höch in Berlin, and Suzanne Duchamp and Céline Arnauld in Paris made important interventions across fine art, literature, and performance. Hemus highlights how their techniques and approaches were characteristic of Dada’s rebellion against aesthetic and cultural conventions, analyzes the impact of gender on each woman’s work, and shows convincingly that they were innovators and not imitators. In its new and original perspective on Dada, the book broadens our appreciation and challenges accepted understandings of this revolutionary avant-garde movement.

Reviewed by Sally O’Reilly for Frieze Issue 123 (May 2009).

Metzler Lexikon Avantgarde

Metzler Lexikon Avantgarde
Hubert van den Berg/Walter Fähnders (Hrsg.)
Verlag J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart
VI, 404 pages; bound
EUR 59,95
ISBN: 3-476-01866-0 / 978-3-476-01866-3
More onformation on the site of the publisher.

This dictionary covers avantgarde movements from those in literature and the fine arts at the beginning of the 20th century to the neo-avantgarde of postmodernism. It portrays the frequently transnational movements and institutions that were to change the cultural landscape forever and includes all genres and fields, such as architecture, the fine arts, design, film, literature, the media, fashion, music and photography. Some of the movements, topics and concepts covered include, abstract art, Bauhaus, chance, collage, Dada, experimental music, happening, concrete poetry, manifesto, new objectivity, performance, pop-art, and ready-made.

The Situationist and the City

The Situationist and the City. A Reader
Edited and translated by Tom McDonough
Published by Verso, London
288 pages
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 364 3 (paper)
URL: www.versobooks.com/books/klm/m-titles/mcdonough_tom_situationists_and_the_city.shtml.

The Situationist International (SI), led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. One central theme to their work was rethinking the city: from a site for routine consumption and work to a utopia that breaks down barriers between function and play. In this essential volume Tom McDonough collects together all of the SI’s key essays on urbanism and the city.

The book will be strikingly illustrated by images that were core to the SI project. It will include such key texts as 'The Theory of Dérive', 'Formulary for a New Urbanism', and many previously untranslated texts, including those that came out of the Situationists’ collaboration with Henri Lefebvre.

Futurisms - Precursors, Protagonists, Legacies

Utrecht University will held an international conference on "Futurisms: precursors, protagonists, legacies", from 1 till 3 December 2009.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Günter Berghaus (Bristol University), Giovanni Lista (CNRS, Paris), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) and Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University); confirmed invited speakers are Walter Adamson (Amory University, Atlanta), Timothy Campbell (Cornell University), Silvia Contarini (Paris-X Nanterre) and Luca Somigli (Toronto University).
Organisors: Geert Buelens (chair of modern Dutch literature, University of Utrecht), Harald Hendrix (chair of Italian Studies, University of Utrecht), Monica Jansen (assistant professor in Italian Studies, Universities of Utrecht and Antwerp) and Wanda Strauven (associate professor in Film Studies, University of Amsterdam).

Information:
Conference website: www.hum.uu.nl/futurisms
Mail: futurisms@uu.nl.

Viva il Futurismo!

Kunst- und Kulturveranstaltungen zum 100-jährigen Gründungsjubiläum des Futurismus
Vorträge • Tagung • Theater • Tanz • Musik • Film • Ausstellung
Köln + Bonn + Düsseldorf • Juni–Oktober 2009

In Zusammenarbeit mit:
- Italienisches Kulturinstitut Köln
- Bonner Italien-Zentrum
- Vereinigung Deutsch-Italienischer Kultur-Gesellschaften e.V. (VDIG).

Website: www.futurismus.kulturserver.de/.