Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait: maisons (Collection Dada)

Published ReferencesSymmes, Marilyn, "Illustrated books at The Toledo Museum of Art", The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Miami, winter 1988, pp. 61-62, repr.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 1.

Toledo Museum of Art, DaDA dADa daDa dada…, February 2 - April 2, 2001.

Toledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars: European Works on Paper 1914-1945, September 1, - December 31 2008.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860-1960, Boston, 1961, no. 3.

cf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 56, reprs.

Label TextThis collection of poems is illustrated by 19 woodcuts by Arp. The book is an important document of the Dada movement. Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara were among the founders of Dada in Zurich during the War. In this collection of Tzara's poems, Arp's woodcuts are shifting, organic, "bio-morphic" shapes that grew from his pen and ink drawings of bits of nature: "I simplified these forms and united their essences in fluid ovals …like nature, ordered according to the laws of chance." Responding to the war, Arp searched, as he recalled, "for an elementary art that would … save humankind from the furious folly of these times."