Making Mischief: DADA Invades New York

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. Hardbound. VG/VG. Plum cloth with gold lettering; brown and midnight illustrated dj; 304 pp. with profuse illustrations in color and bw. Issued in conjunction with a 1986-1987 exhibition that "proposes that Dada was not only important to the growth of American modernism, but that the ferment of New York played a critical role in the continuing eveolution of Dada itself. More than 200 illustrations of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and related documentary material record the achievements of the French emigres Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, the American expatriate Man Ray, as well as American artists Charles Demuth, Katherine Dreier, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Florine Stettheimer, Clara Tice, and Beatrice Wood." (dj) With 15 essays by expert authors.