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Erwin Blumenfeld: Collages Dada 1916-1931 #917075

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Erwin Blumenfeld: Collages Dada 1916-1931 #917075
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Blumenfeld Collages Dada 1916 - 1931 <p> Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, 1981 40 pp. limited edition: 1000 copies; exhibition catalogue with texts in French by Yorick Blumenfeld, Hendel Teicher and Blumenfeld himself, 45 catalogue items all described and illustrated in b/w; with a colour illustration pasted on the front cover. Rare. <p> Erwin Blumenfeld, renowned as photographer for such major magazines as "Vogue", "Life", and "Harper's Bazaar", was throughout his life inspired by the Dada movement and it's "spirit of anything goes". It was shortly after his exile to Holland, in 1918 from his birthplace Berlin, that he established a Dutch Dada branch where none had existed before. In 1921 he married Lena Citron (Paul Citron's cousin) and found himself having to work at a variety of jobs which did not suit his temperament. It was principally during these 20 years in Holland that "Dadaism was a good vehicle from which to launch darts at all those aspects of society for which he felt contempt he was intensely disillusioned with capitalism, nationalism, communism all the isms except Dadaism and anarchism." writes Yorick Blumenfeld in his introductory essay to the illustrated catalogue for the exhibition. <p> Futher on the author writes "The role of chance and anti-rationalism in these collages were self-evident. Some of the collages seemed unfinished, as if he had lost patience or interest and had wandered off to eat some fresh Dutch herring. The collages reveal his extraordinary ...
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<tr><td>Title:Erwin Blumenfeld: Collages Dada 1916-1931</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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