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Ball and Hammer - Ball, Hugo; Hammer, Jonathan; Schnapp, Jeffrey T. - Yale University Press
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Aug 19, 2002
144 p., 8 x 10
15 b/w + 25 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300083736
ISBN-10: 0300083734
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Cloth: $42.00 tx
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Ball and HammerHugo Ball’s Tenderenda the Fantast
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Hugo Ball; Translated, illustrated, and with an essay by Jonathan Hammer; Introduced, edited, and annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball’s visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images. The resulting “dialogue” between Ball, the founder of Zurich Dada, and Hammer, a contemporary artist, casts new light on Dadaism and its postmodern legacies.
In Tenderenda, composed between 1914 and 1920, Ball recounts a hallucinatory tale of his own Dada enchantment and disenchantments. Jeffrey T. Schnapp introduces the book, elaborating the cultural and historical context of Ball’s work and situating Hammer’s work in relation to Dada. In a concluding essay, Hammer probes various aspects of Ball’s asceticism, spirituality, and sexuality to arrive at a revisionist interpretation of Zurich Dada and the origins of modernism as well as postmodern art-making.
Jonathan Hammer is a translator and artist whose visual interpretations of Tenderenda have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. He is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Jeffrey T. Schnapp is director of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory, holds the Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, and is professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Stanford University.
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