Maggs Bros.

A very good copy, with some very slight wear to the wrappers: neatly re-glued into the wrappers.

The first collaboration between Tzara and Arp, Tzara’s second published collection and one of the first major books of the Dada movement. “An important document of the Dada movement by two of its founders. The non-objective woodcuts are similar to Arp’s wooden reliefs and collages at this time and their free form is expressive of the automatic quality valued by the Dadaists.” (The Artist and the Book). Arp had exhibited his first abstract work in 1915 and described his vision by saying “I looked for new constellations of form such as nature never stops producing. I tried to make forms grow. I put my trust in the example of seeds, stars, clouds, plants, animals, men, and finally in my innermost being.” For his part, Tzara explained that he sought to “destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organisation: spread demoralisation wherever I go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual”.