Android, Cyborg, Dandy and Woman: Representations of the Body in the Decadent and Dada Imaginations: the Hungarian and International Contexts

Györgyi Földes

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Representations of the Body in the Decadent and Dada Imaginations: the Hungarian and International Contexts

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This paper examines how Dada reinterpreted the figures of androids, cyborgs, Dandies, robots and automatons first conceived of within the Decadent imagination of the fin-de-siècle. First and foremost, however, it looks at how these literary and artistic figures became increasingly provocative within avant-garde production, especially from the point of view of gender. Works that transgressed conventional boundaries of gender and that interrogated power relations took on a subversive cast within Dada, forming as it were a prelude to the postmodern and post-humanist variations on these themes that have come to dominate recent and current discourse. The essay begins with Western examples before offering an overview of the Hungarian avant-garde as a case study. The Hungarian avant-garde, like other modernist experiments in the region, did not commit itself to Dada exclusively. Rather, it incorporated certain techniques drawn from Dada into its artistic practice, often blending Dada with other artistic movements, for example Constructivism. Accordingly, the puppets, robots and machines of Hungarian Dada differ from the Dada humanoids of Western art history.

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Cannibalizing the Canon

Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe

Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume: 42 and Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume: 42

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Print Publication Date:: 16 Jan 2024

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Representations of the Body in the Decadent and Dada Imaginations: the Hungarian and International Contexts

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