Title: Dada Americano / [a cura di Arturo Schwarz]. --

Published: Milano : G. Mazzotta Editore, 1915-1921, r1970.

Description: 5 pamphlets in portfolio : ill. ; 37 cm. --

Series: Archivi d'arte del XX secolo

Documenti e periodici dada ; Fd.2, pt.1-5

Note: Limited ed. of 500 copies; text in English & French.
Also known under variant title stamped under imprint: Documenti Dada e surrealisti.
Cover title.

Contents:
2.1. The Ridgefield Gazook, no. 0, March 31, 1915. Ed., Man Ray, Ridgefield, N.J. "Published unnecessarily whenever the spirits move us." 1 folded sheet: The cosmic urge / Man Ray, with ape-ologies to Picasso [ill.]; To Him: (words without music) / by Adon La+ [=Adon Lacroix]; Art Motes / Kumoff. Craftmanship [by] Mac Kucera, Hipp O'Havel. Il'litterature: Three bombs / words by Adolf Lupo ; design by Man Ray; Pilz / A. Kreambug [=Alfred Kreymborg]. --

2.2-3. The blindman, no. 1 : Independents' Number, April 10, 1917.New York: 33 West 67th Str. 8 p.: "the 2nd no. .. will appear as soon as YOU have sent sufficient material for it." p.3-6, about the Exhibition of Independent Artists, no.I.-XXIII; short contributions by Beatrice Wood and Mina Loy. p.7: "Published by Henri Pierre Roche." -- The blind man, no. 2, May, 1917. 16 p.: on cover, Broyeuse de chocolat [ill.] / Marcel Duchamp. Announcement of The Blind man's Ball, Friday, May 25th, 61 Washington Square. Fountain [sculpture] /by R. Mutt [=M. Duchamp] ; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, "The exhibit refused by The Independents." Poems by Robert Carlton Brown, Erik Satie, S.T., E.K., C. Demuth, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Picabia, Charles Duncan, & Frances Simpson Stevens. Essays, letters or ill. by: Louise Norton, Clara Tice, "a mother," Joseph Stella, Frank Crowninshield, Mina Loy, G. Buffet, Allen Norton, A. Stieglitz.

2.4. Rongwrong, [1917]. [Editor, Man Ray]. 8 p.: [Letter5.5.1917, New Brunswick, [N.J.] / Marcel Douxami [=Duchamp]; Plafonds creux [poem] / Picabia; Une nuit chinoise a New York / marquis de la Torre; chess record, Picabia [white], and Roche [black]; Clifford Williams [photo of a white sculpture] / Platre a toucher chez De Zayas; Rondes de printemps [poem]. Pour amuser rich [essay] / [both by] Carl Van Vechten; Temptation of St. Anthony [abstract ill.] / John Covert; A cette heure-la / Allen Norton; Portrait de M. et R. ensemble [ill. & poem, likely of M. Duchamp and Roche] / H. F.; programme of dance performances by Michio Itow. --

2.5. New York Dada, 1921. [Editors, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp]. -- 1 large sheet folded twice, in another folded sheet as cover. Cover has title and date printed upside-down in small, red letters on beige background, except for central inset [12.5x9] of a bottle with label "Belle Haleine, Eau de Violette" / [by Marcel Duchamp]. -- Insert, blue ink on white, glossy paper. p.1: doubly exposed photo of high-heeled leg containing a woman's eye, nose, mouth / [Stieglitz]; captions: "Watch your step!" & "Cut out dadynamic stuff!" --
2.5. p.2: dadaphoto / [Man Ray]. Authorization [to name the periodical New York Dada] / Tristan Tzara; he lists the following collaborators mentioned in the forthcoming guidebook Dadaglobe: Paul Citroen; Baader Daimonides, Hausmann, Heartfield, Hoech, Huelsenbeck, Grosz, Fried Hardy Worm (Berlin); Clement Pansaers; Mac Robber; Jacques Edwards, Baargeld, Armada von Dulgeogne, Max Ernst, F. Haubrich (Cologne); Schwitters; Bonset; Guillermo de Torre; Cantarelli; Bacchi; Fiozzi; Krusenitch; Vagts; W.C. Arensberg, G. Buffet, Duchamp, Adon Lacroix, Baroness von Loringhoven, Man Ray, Joseph Stell, E. Varese, A. Stieglitz, M. Hartley, C. Kahler (N.Y.); Aragon, Brancusi, Breton, M. Buffet, S. Charchoune, Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Eluard, Peret, Picabia, Ribemnont-D., Rigaut, Soubeyran, Soupault, Tzara (Paris); M. Vischer, J. Evola, Arp, S. Taueber.--
2.5. p.3: "Pug debs make society bow : Marsden Hartley may make a couple; coming out party next Friday / [Man Ray?]; unsigned, but "with apologies to 'Bugs' Baer." -- [Cartoon] / R. Goldberg. -- Ventilation [aphorism] / Dadataxi, Ltd. --
2.5. p.4: Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven [2 photos, half-bust; one with hat, the other with short hair, in half-profile / [by Man Ray?]. -- Advertisement: "Don't miss Kurt Schwitters and other Anonymphs at the Societe Anonyme, Inc., 19 E. 47th Str., N.Y." -- Upside down: Yours with devotion, trumpets and drums [poem] / [anonymous].

Local Note: Both series titles [Archivi d'arte del XX secolo & Documenti e periodici dada] from label mounted on inside front covers of five unnumbered portfolios, all reprinted by Mazzotta in 1970, and "a cura di Arturo Schwarz."
[1] Dada italiano.--
[2] Dada americano.--
[3] Dada francese.--
[4] Dada germanico.--
[5] Dada svizzero.

This is folder map no.2. -- Transferred in mid-1995 from Architecture Library to Rare Books Room.

Subjects:
Freytag-Loringhoven,Elsa von, 1874-1927.
Artists New York (State) New York Biography.
Dadaism New York (State) New York
Dadaism Societies, etc.
Dadaism United States Periodicals.
Dadaism Periodicals.

Other Author(s): Schwarz, Arturo, 1924-

Holdings:
Archives & Special Collections, Oversize NX 600 D3 S32 Fd.2 Fd.2:pt.1-5