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

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

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

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

by Matthew Biro
$53.10
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by Matthew Biro (Author)

Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art

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

In what could be termed a prehistory of the posthuman, Matthew Biro shows the ways in which new forms of human existence were imagined in Germany between the two world wars through depictions of cyborgs. Examining the work of Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Otto Dix, and Rudolf Schlichter, he reveals an innovative interpretation of the cyborg as a representative of hybrid identity, as well as a locus of new modes of awareness created by the impact of technology on human perception. Tracing the prevalence of cyborgs in German avant-garde art, Biro demonstrates how vision, hearing, touch, and embodiment were beginning to be reconceived during the Weimar Republic.

Biro's unique and interdisciplinary analysis offers a substantially new account of the Berlin Dada movement, one that integrates the group's poetic, theoretical, and performative practices with its famous visual strategies of photomontage, assemblage, and mixed-media painting to reveal radical images of a "new human."

Author Biography

Matthew Biro is professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan.

Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: July 01, 2009
ISBN9780816636204
Author Matthew Biro
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
GenreHistory and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2009
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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