Book-review: Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina M. Denischenko, Gábor Dobó, Merse Pál Szeredi (eds.), Cannibalizing the Canon. Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2024
Book-review: Oliver A. I. Botar, Irina M. Denischenko, Gábor Dobó, Merse Pál Szeredi (eds.), Cannibalizing the Canon. Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2024

Summary/Abstract: Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe aims to rewrite Dada history by focusing on issues and territories that have remained under-researched. In the reception of Dadaism, which has mainly centered on the major hubs, radicalism based on a nihilistic dimension was often emphasized—an interpretation supported even by the Dadaists themselves, who built a founding myth later included in literary histories. To overcome a series of clichés, the editors outline an approach in the introduction that relies on revealing “the underlying continuities between Dada and other artistic developments, whether local or international, prior to Dada and after it, as well as between artists’ intellectual and personal identities and the ‘peripheral’ environments from which many of them emerged” (3).

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