The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin

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U of Minnesota Press, 2009 - 318 Seiten
In an era when technology, biology & culture are becoming ever more closely connected, 'The Dada Cyborg' explains how the cyborg as we know it today developed between 1918 & 1933 as German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes & fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
 

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Cyborgs Hybridity and Identity
1
Origins Practices and Institutions
25
Photomontage Signification and the Mass Media
65
Dada Performance Photomontage and the Cyborg
105
Soldier Portraits War Cripples and the Deconstruction of the Authoritarian Subject
153
Gender Race and Sexuality in the Photomontages of Hannah Höch
199
Dada Cyborgs in the Twentyfirst Century
255
Notes
259
Index
311
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Matthew Biro is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

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