Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62

New York: American Federation of Arts, 1994. Softcover. As new in shrinkwrap. BW illustrated wraps with lime green spine, 153 pp. with 73 bw and color plates. Works by 34 artists, almost all of them American. Some of the artists represented are Arman, John Cage, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Fluxus, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneeman, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol and others. Includes a checklist of works exhibited. Essays include "Neo-Dada" by Susan Hapgood; "Forms of Violence: Neo-Dada Performance" by Maurice Berger; "Dada and Fluxus" by Jill Johnston; artists' interviews and texts by Arman, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Daniel Spoerri, John Cage, Jasper Johns and Niki de Saint Phalle. "The ironic wit, the challenging images, and the experimental methods of the renegade artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s are closely examined, offering a fresh view of the many manifestations of the art that was once considered a movement. The works of the original Dadaists, Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, are introduced as the main influences on the younger artists' own readymades, found objects, detritus, environmental, and performance pieces. The diverse works of Arman, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, among others, are discussed, linking the previously unconnected movements of Pop Art, Fluxus, and Nouveau Realisme in the first catalogue to focus on this powerful and provocative phenomenon."-publisher description.