Andy's review
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
by Hugo Ball
Andy's review
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art) by Hugo Ball
Andy's review
rating:
This is an astounding document not only of an individual life but of a certain place and time. Ball was one of the guiding lights behind Zurich Dada, and this is his memoir/meditation on his tragically abbreviated life. Composed throughout the 1910's and 1920's, it tracks his revolt against his staid bourgeois upbringing, his initial successes in the German expressionist movement, his flight to Zurich to avoid conscription during WWI, Dada, and, finally, his conversion to a mystical and anarchist-tinged Catholicism in the 1920's. A fascinating life from fascinating times.
