Author: Ball, Hugo [1886-1927] ; Hammer, Jonathan ; & Schnapp, Jeffrey Thompson
Title: Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's "Tenderenda the Fantast
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (2002). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 26x21cm, x,134 pp, Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Translated & with an essay by Jonathan Hammer.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. ["In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball’s visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images. The resulting "dialogue" between Ball, the founder of Zurich Dada, and Hammer, a contemporary artist, casts new light on Dadaism and its postmodern legacies. In Tenderenda, composed between 1914 and 1920, Ball recounts a hallucinatory tale of his own Dada enchantment and disenchantments. Jeffrey Schnapp introduces the book, elaborating the cultural and historical context of Ball’s work and situating Hammer’s work in relation to Dada. In a concluding essay, Hammer probes various aspects of Ball’s asceticism, spirituality, and sexuality to arrive at a revisionist interpretation of Zurich Dada and the origins of modernism as well as postmodern art-making" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: German Literary History, Dada Dadaism, Zürich Dadaist, Avant-Garde, Switzerland, Art Movements, Hugo Ball, ,