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Dada in Paris / Michel Sanouillet ; Revised and Expanded by Anne Sanouillet ; Translated by Sharmila Ganguly D ADA in Paris MICHEL SANOUILLET revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet 1 st English-language edition translated by Sharmila Ganguly The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The latest edition of this work appeared in French under the title Dada à Paris. © CNRS Éditions 2005. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Ministère français chargé de la culture—Centre national du livre. This work was published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture—National Book Center. The authors would like to give special thanks to their executive editor, Roger Conover, copyeditor, Gillian Beaumont, and editorial consultant, Michèle Humbert. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechan- ical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without per- mission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email [email protected] .edu or write to Special Sales Depart- ment, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Stone Serif by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, Georgia. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Sanouillet, Michel [Dada à Paris. English] Dada in Paris / Michel Sanouillet ; revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet ; translated by Sharmila Ganguly. —New ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-01303-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Dadaism—France—Paris. 2. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—France—Paris—History—20th century. I. Sanouillet, Anne. II. Title. NX456.5.D3S2613 2009 709.04Ј062—dc22 2008044043 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 INDEX OF NAMES The following are excluded from this index: the names of fi ctional persons; the names of Louis Aragon, André Breton, Francis Picabia, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Philippe Soupault, and Tristan Tzara, who appear practically on every page; and the names in the bibliography. Abbott, Berenice, 589 471, 477, 484, 485, 486, 487, 492, 493, 494, Adamov, Arthur, 120, 326 505, 506, 517, 518, 519, 521, 523, 528, 529, 530, Adcock, Craig E., 623 533, 537, 540, 545, 553, 558, 564, 565, 569, Aicard, Jean, 44, 535 603, 609, 618, 619 Aisen, Maurice, 151, 247 Apollinaire, Jacqueline, 517, 529 Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban Fournier, known Archipenko, Alexander, 115, 413, 473, 515, 550, as), 524 566 Albert-Birot, Germaine, 48, 531 Arcos, René, 298 Albert-Birot, Pierre, 9, 11, 35, 47–48, 50, 52, 64, Arensberg, Walter Conrad, 13, 14, 15, 17, 84, 90, 69, 75, 83, 97–98, 103, 105, 163, 302, 335, 339, 111, 247, 572, 604 381, 416, 471, 473, 505, 518, 528, 531, 532, 541, Arezzo, Maria d’, 34 545, 559, 573 Arland, Marcel, 133, 262, 263–264, 265, 559, Albinoni, Tommaso, 130 598, 604 Aleksic´, Dragan, 33 Arman (Armand Fernandez, known as), 327 Allais, Alphonse, 296 Arnaud, Mrs. Raoul. See Oléo Allard, Roger, 50, 55, 65, 142–143, 181, 556, Arnauld, Céline, 111, 115, 150, 151, 152, 155, 564, 606 225, 247, 473, 474, 475, 554, 566, 568, 588, 598 Allégret, Marc, 181 Arnheim, Olénine d’, 589 Amaro, Luigi, 519 Arnheim, Rudolf, 623 Anderson, Margaret, 18, 264–265, 589, 604 Arnoux, Guy, 166 André, Marius, 357 Aron, Raymond, 239 Antheil, Georges, 609 Arp, Jean (Hans), 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 26–28, 30, 32, Apollinaire, Guillaume, 9, 11, 34, 41, 46–47, 48, 101, 111, 117, 129, 151, 162, 163, 178, 181, 182, 49, 50, 55, 56–57, 61, 62, 63–64, 69–71, 75, 77, 201, 203, 204, 210–212, 218, 225, 231, 248, 79, 86, 94, 96, 97, 104, 130, 132, 134, 144, 145, 249, 265, 269–270, 303, 306, 309, 313, 327, 152, 155, 171, 229, 232, 238, 258, 260, 265, 340, 345, 359, 360, 367, 377, 381, 382, 384, 266, 267, 272, 279, 280, 295, 298, 303, 304, 395, 396, 397, 399, 401–402, 404, 407, 408, 308, 322, 328, 333, 387, 388–389, 459–462, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 417, 418, 419, 421, 473, 690 Arp, Jean (Hans) (cont.) Bataille, Henry, 247 475, 503, 515, 550, 559, 572, 575, 584, 585, Bathori, Jane (Jeanne-Marie Berthier, known 586, 612 as), 52, 517 Artaud, Antonin, 548 Baudelaire, Charles, 1, 45, 51, 110, 134, 294, 416 Ashbery, John, 607 Baudouin, Dominique, 547 Aubault de la Haulte Chambre du Lémoléon de Baumann, Fritz, 10 La Gachève, Georges Elzéar Xavier, 132 Bazin, René, 292 Aurel (Mrs. Alfred Mortier, known as), 52 Beach, Sylvia, 264, 589 Auric, Georges, 77, 86, 103, 138, 166, 225, 238, Beauduin, Nicolas, 228, 598 240, 241, 242, 247, 273, 279, 305, 436, 437, Beaumont, Etienne de, 166, 283 450, 481, 545, 571, 573, 588, 597, 609, 610 Beckett, Samuel, 120, 326 Autant, Claude, 522 Bédouin, Jean-Louis, 551, 594, 619 Aymié (for Émié), Louis, 357, 568 Begot, Jean-Pierre, 552, 577 Béhar, Henri, 513, 603, 607, 622 Baader, Johannes, 22, 24, 25, 33, 248, 324, 514, Behrens-Hangeler, Herbert, 32 537–538 Bellecour, Jean-Claude, 579 Baargeld, Johannes Theodor, 27, 28, 182, 204, Belling, Rudolf, 23 211, 559, 572 Ben. See Vautier, Benjamin Babinski, Joseph, 256, 540 Benedict XV (pope), 127 Bailly, Alice, 396 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 166 Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 7 Benjamin, M., 396 Balakian, Anna, 513 Benn, Gottfried, 29 Balkis, 596 Benoit, Pierre, 86, 112, 245, 247, 438 Ball, Hugo, 5, 6–9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 36, 69, 199, Béraud, Léon, 213 249, 500, 513, 555, 597, 617 Berger, Pierre, 559 Balzac, Honoré de, 589 Bergson, Henri, 110, 264 Baraglioule, Julius de, 538 Bernhardt, Sarah, 226, 251 Barbaranges (gallery), 130 Berrichon, Paterne, 77, 553 Barbusse, Henri, 6, 43, 112, 245, 247, 438, 576 Bersaucourt, Albert de, 295 Barclay, Louise, 551, 552 Berswordt-Wallrabe, Kornelia von, 620 Barnes, Djuna, 589 Bertin, Émile, 272 Barney, Natalie Clifford, 69 Bertin, Pierre, 55, 65, 103, 166, 280, 281, 610 Baron, Jacques, 132, 133, 242, 257, 258, 260, Bertini, Francesca, 118 262, 265, 272, 275, 279, 305, 367, 436, 439, Berton, Germaine, 276 453, 478, 597, 601, 610 Bertrand, Aloysius, 562 Barrès, Maurice, 39, 44, 61, 185–193, 195, 204, Beucler, André, 527 225, 234, 235, 236, 247, 252, 292, 307, 314, 317, Beyle, Henri. See Stendhal 345, 348, 576–578 Bidou, Henri, 298, 593 Barthe, Victor, 610 Bief, André du, 553 Bartók, Béla, 288 Bieutenholz, Victor, 32 Baruzzi brothers, 84 Billy, André, 84, 573 Barzun, Henri-Martin, 298, 556 Binet-Valmer (Jean Binet de Valmer, known as), Bastia, Jean, 292 248, 586 Index 691 Birault, Paul, 65 Brosjadam, 118 Bissière, Roger, 617 Brown, Slater, 239, 589 Blaizot, Georges, 93 Bruant, Aristide, 464 Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 131, 144, 252, 287, 298, Brulat, Paul, 616 462–463, 533, 545, 558, 606, 609, 614 Brunschweiller, Dr., 400 Blaukopf, Kurt, 557, 623 Buchet, Gustave, 117, 550 Bloch (bookshop), 342, 344 Budry, Jean, 282, 489 Bloy, Léon, 6, 519 Buffet (Picabia), Gabrielle, 14, 69, 119, 157, 164, Blum, Léon, 618 166, 178, 197, 225, 247, 384, 427, 459–461, 488, Blum, René, 588 530, 534, 541, 573, 574, 588, 602, 605 Boccioni, Umberto, 171 Buffet, Marguerite, 119, 126, 163, 166, 188, 221, Boesner, Carl, 23 247, 551, 554, 578, 588 Boisson, de, General, 13 Bugaud, Mrs. E., 583 Bonnaud, Dominique, 292, 615 Buisson, M., 549 Bonnefon, Jean de, 132 Burchard, Otto, 25, 28 Bonnet, Marguerite, 529, 569, 579 Burchartz, Max, 270 Bonnot, Jules Joseph, 197 Butor, Michel, 622 Bonset, I. K. See Doesburg, Theo van Buzzi, Paolo, 34 Bordeaux, Henry, 292, 294 Borges, Jorge Luis, 36 Cabanel, Alexandre, 453 Borlin, Jean, 207 Cage, John, 327 Börne, Ludwig, 91 Callimachi, Scarlat, 34 Borràs, Maria Lluïsa, 606, 607 Camfi eld, William A., 606 Botrel, Théodore, 162, 292 Canetti, Jacques, 579 Boucher, É.-L., 616 Cangiullo, Francesco, 34 Bouchor, Maurice, 120 Cansinos Assens, Rafael, 36 Boucier, Emmanuel, 292 Cantarelli, Gino, 35, 162, 204, 518, 572 Boulard, Maître, 281 Carassou, Michel, 523 Boulenger, 247 Carco, Francis, 46 Boulez, Pierre, 327 Carpentier, Georges, 120, 181, 292 Bourderon, Albert, 520 Carrà, Carlo, 34 Bourdieu, Pierre, 324 Carré, Louis, 588, 606 Bourget, Paul, 44, 247 Carrier (Carrière), 374 Bragaglia, Anton Giulio, 35 Casabon, Soler, 102 Brañas, Lasala María, 560 Casella, Georges, 166, 200, 287, 435, 436, 588 Brancusi, Constantin, 247, 451, 556, 598 Cassanyès, Magi A., 607 Braque, Georges, 251, 333, 359, 468, 506, 621 Cassou, Jean, 372 Brasseur, Pierre, 613 Cendrars, Blaise, 52, 63, 64, 68, 75, 76, 86, 104, Brauner, Victor, 34 134, 156, 262, 266, 267, 357, 519, 523, 526, Bray, Will, 606 538, 545, 553, 576 Brémond, Henri, 577 Cˇerník, Artuš, 33 Brisset, Pierre, 5 César (César Baldaccini, known as), 321, 327 Broglio, Mario, 34 Cézanne, Paul, 120, 150, 444 692 Chadourne, Marc, 86 Codréano, Lizica, 280, 609–610 Chapka-Bonnière, Pierre, 294 Colette (Gabrielle Colette, known as), 247, 521 Chaplin, Charles, 51, 109–110, 150, 229, 344, Collet, Henri, 522 521, 544, 548 Colline, Paul, 292 Char, René, 231 Confucius, 212, 591 Charchoune, Serge, 23, 135, 163, 191, 204, 220– Copeau, Jacques, 556 221, 243, 265, 305, 560, 578, 581, 583, 590, Coqueley de Chaussepierre, Charles-Georges, 598, 612 616 Charcot, Jean Martin, 540 Coquelin, Ernest (known as Coquelin junior), Chardin, Jean-Siméon, 158 296 Charensol, Georges, 121, 298 Corlin, Germaine. See Everling, Germaine Charles, Gilbert, 600 Corlin, Michel, 406, 408, 588 Charpentier, C. A., 289 Cormon (Fernand Piestre, known as), 122, 164, Chateaubriand, François René de, 92, 100, 313 617 Chaumont, Jacqueline, 610 Corray (Corray-Hossli), Han, 19, 503 Chavanon, Roland, 519 Corsa, Filip, 34 Chenal, Marthe, 42, 128, 166, 209, 219, 434, Costin, Jacques, 34, 325 482, 556, 588 Courteline, Georges, 289, 290, 297 Chevalier, Jean-Claude, 618 Courtois, Stéphane, 622 Christian.
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