Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art by Peter Carlaftes


Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
Title : Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
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ISBN : 1941110207
ISBN-10 : 9781941110201
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 164
Publication : First published May 12, 2015

The spirit of Dada continues to thrive in this stunning annual collection of provocative and disruptive Dada-inspired art and writing culled from a plethora of top international contributors, with 50+ color images. Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest edition of an annual collection of contemporary Dada work inspired by Dada instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. This year’s theme, “Techno-Prisoners,” features art illustrating the increasing dependence on technology taken to its most dystopian and absurd extremes. It features work by a wide range in internationally renowned Dada artist and writers including Fluxus leader John M. Bennett, punk rock legends Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka and Alice Bag, poet and Zapp comix founder Charles Plymell, world-renowned contemporary artists Raymond Pettibon and Mark Kostabi, provocative outsider artists Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, controversial Japanese artist Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), and many more.

Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Reviews

  • Joanie Zosike

    The continuing life of DADA is a very important to me, a student and practitioner of DADA poetry and performance. MAINTENANT an amazing annual DADA publication from Three Rooms Press has always been a gem. The most recent edition, No. 9, is Maintenant to the nth degree--a bigger, broader scope of contributors, and IN FULL COLOR. Beautifully designed by Kat Georges and intelligently edited by Peter Carlaftes, it is filled with art and writing from diverse international contributors. The journal has something for everyone and is everything dada. The Editors statement at the front of the book is a chillingly thrilling dada manifesto that does true honor to the man who inspired Maintenant, the ur-dada Arthur Cravan. Take a dive into this liquid diode of dada--don't doodoo yourself or doodle around waiting, just do it! You vill enjoy it! JADADA!
    Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike, DADA-mama

  • Garrett Hinman

    I won this book and had no clue what I was getting into, I loved the weirdness of a lot of the pictures. I'm not big on poetry and this book didn't change that, some where fun to read some where just looked over. overall it was to anti technology for my taste but it was a quick fun break in My normal routines.

  • Blick

    This Three Rooms Press annual DADA journal has found a family within MoMA's permanent collection. It is truly a work of art.

    Filtered through the hissing minds of over 150 international writers and artists, Maintenant 9 spits out colorful taunts at a depraved new world that threatens to swallow us all into technocratic cultural obedience.

  • Iulia Militaru

    Specters of DADA, every 'self-same' is haunted by its 'other'! Text and image are dancing together looking for their DADA (a word of No meaning, or the image of a child's voice). This is a fascinating book.

  • Mark

    A collection of Dada inspired collages and some contemporary poetry of varying quality.

  • Cheryl

    I enjoy all art books even thought I find most of DADA confusing. I liked the theme 'Tech-No-Prisoners'. The combination of the artwork and the prose was very interesting. I received this book free from Goodreads.