CONTENTS

Editor’s Foreword

Preface

Introduction

I. The Search for Absolute Freedom

Mr. Dada

Dada? Dada!

Arp—Rising Behind a Cloud

Merz

Raoul Hausmann

Hannah Höch

Lajos Kassák

II. The Search for Absolute Order

Piet Mondrian

Kazimir Malevich

Mies van der Rohe—The Builder

The Search for New Sounds

III. The Search for the Marvelous (Surrealism)

Georges Méliès

Max Ernst

Joseph Cornell

Jean Cocteau

Emmy Hennings

Man Ray

Alexander Calder

The Buildings Series

IV. The Search for Reality

The Search for Reality

George Grosz

Dada Monteur

A Rare Person: Ferdinand Hardekopf

A Homeric Figure: Robert J. Flaherty

Sergei Eisenstein

Federico Fellini

V. The Search for the Future

Frederick Kiesler

Happenings, Concept Art, the Metaphysical Hole, Eternity, and Magic

VI. The Search for Nothingness

Marcel Duchamp

VII. The Search for the Facts of Art History

Art is Superfluous

Bauer and the Baroness

“Joy in Another Person’s Being”

VIII. On Growing Old

Lyonel Feininger

Piet Mondrian

Fernand Léger

Yves Tanguy

Hans Arp

Julius Bissier

Marcel Duchamp

Postscript

Artists Mentioned in the Text

Endnotes