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About the Book

Huelsenbeck’s memoirs bring to life the concerns—intellectual, artistic, and political—of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition by Rudolf E. Kuenzli

The New Man-Armed with the Weapons of Doubt and
Defiance: Introduction by Hans J. Kleinschmidt

The Dada Drummer
Jean Arp
Tristan Tzara
Hans Richter
A Knight in Connecticut
Marcel Duchamp
George Grosz
August Stramm
Joaquin Torres-Garda
Jean Tinguely
Postscript to Dada
The Case of Dada
Dada
Dada and Existentialism
Psychoanalytical Notes
on Modern Art
On Inspiration
About My Poetry
New York
Modern Art and Totalitarian
Regimes
The Agony of the Artist
A Few of the Artist's Problems
On Leaving America for Good

Plates
Bibliography
Index