Destruction was my Beatrice

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Designed by Cynthia Young

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rasula, Jed.

Destruction was my Beatrice :

Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century / Jed Rasula.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-465-06694-0 (e-book)

1. Dadaism. I. Title.

NX456.5.D3R37 2015

700'.41162—dc23

2015004226

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