A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.

Max Ernst's early-twentieth-century collage-novel calls upon the reader to interpret captions and surrealistic illustrations--created from old picture books and journals--to ...

Dada includes many of the key figures in the history of modernism, such as Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield, Francis Picabla, Kurt Schwitters ...