Representing Dada: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed: From London 1978 to New York 2006




MoMA Talks: Panel Discussions and Symposia show

Summary: Representing Dada Saturday, September 9, 2006 To mark the close of the international Dada exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA hosted a day-long symposium to consider issues involved in representing Dada through texts, images, and objects, with a particular focus on the semantics of display. A distinguished group of scholars discussed landmark Dada exhibitions and past publications, with the aim of addressing how Dada has been defined historically, geographically, and conceptually. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed: From London 1978 to New York 2006 Dawn Ades, Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex