Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) Book

The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction.

Hugo Ballpoet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mysticwas a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.