DADA
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
provenance
edition · Dada: recueil littéraire et artistique, nos. 1–8, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zürich, July 1917 – Paris, September 1921) — scans of all eight issues, with their text layers; Tristan Tzara, Vingt-cinq poèmes, with ten woodcuts by Hans Arp (Zürich: Collection Dada, 1918); Francis Picabia, Poèmes et dessins de la fille née sans mère: 18 dessins, 51 poèmes (Lausanne: Imprimeries réunies, 1919; 'Terminé à Gstaad, 5 avril 1918'); Francis Picabia, Pensées sans langage, poème, preceded by a preface by 'Udnie' (Paris: Eugène Figuière, 1919), dedicated to Ribemont-Dessaignes, Duchamp and Tzara; Der Dada, no. 1, ed. Raoul Hausmann (Berlin, June 1919) — scan; Walter Serner, Letzte Lockerung: manifest dada (Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1920) — Google Books copy; Hugo Ball, Flametti, oder vom Dandysmus der Armen, Roman (1918), dedicated to Emmy Hennings; Adolf Knoblauch, Dada, with a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger (Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, Der jüngste Tag, 1919)
license · payload: Public domain in the United States: every item published 1917–1921. EU status per author: PD-EU — Ball (d. 1927), Serner (d. 1942), Picabia (d. 1953), Knoblauch (d. 1951); NOT PD-EU — Tzara (d. 1963), Arp (d. 1966), Hausmann (d. 1971), Feininger (d. 1956 → 2027). Payload/record split per EA-CORPORA-02/01. Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · The negation the archive's negative ontology has to stand next to. Dada declares that the work is its own refusal, and the journal is where the refusal was printed as a programme, issue by issue.