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This article is a necessarily selective tale of two cities: Paris, and New York, though other cities appear in it – Chicago especially. It traces the process by which the center of avant-garde artwork – Dada and Surrealist – moved away from Paris to New York, symbolized, perhaps, by the end of Mina Loy’s novel, Insel, in which the narrator, who is collecting artworks for an American gallery, expressive of how capital was moving across the Atlantic, moves back from Paris to New York. The decisive event which ended Paris as a center was the occupation by the Nazis on 14 June 1940.
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The article traces Duchamp’s movement from Paris to New York, looks at the Dada circle in which he moved, and the Modernism of New York, before turning to Mina Loy and her time in Paris, and then in New York.
Duchamp and Futurism
Futurism, an art deriving from Marinetti in 1909, and...
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Tambling, J. (2022). Dada and Surrealism and American Cities. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_241
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