{"product_id":"the-artwork-caught-by-the-tail-francis-picabia-and-dada-in-paris-october-books-9780262026185","title":"The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (October Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe artist Francis Picabia -- notorious dandy  bon vivant  painter  poet  filmmaker  and polemicist -- has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal  and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabias work in Paris during the Dada years  art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabias eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade -- Marcel Duchamps anti-art invention  which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabias hands  Baker argues  the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabias readymade opened art not just to the commodity  but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices  claiming them for art history -- and naming them -- for the first time: Dada Drawing  Dada Painting  Dada Photography  Dada Abstraction  Dada Cinema  Dada Montage. Along the way  Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events  from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada \"manifestations\" to Picabias polemical writings; from a lost work by Picabia in the form of a hole (called  suggestively  The Young Girl) to his \"painting\" Cacodylic Eye  covered in autographs by luminaries ranging from Ezra Pound to Fatty Arbuckle. Baker ends with readymades in prose: a vast interweaving of citations and quotations that converge to create a heated conversation among Picabia  Andr Breton  Tristan Tzara  James Joyce  Friedrich Nietzsche  Jacques Derrida  Gilles Deleuze  and others. Art history has never looked like this before. But then again  Dada has never looked like art history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651449446453,"sku":"ByrdShop_026202618X","price":137.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262026185.jpg?v=1781834784","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-artwork-caught-by-the-tail-francis-picabia-and-dada-in-paris-october-books-9780262026185","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}