Hans Richter (1888 - 1976)
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) - Man Ray, Hans Richter
The most private artist of our generation -- Marcel Duchamp -- here shows himself fully, exhibiting his famous moving discs to the camera many years after their creation. The expression is proud, defiant, secret, and of an inner sadness. --Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel
Biography
Hans Richter was a Dadaist artist, filmmaker and writer. He was born on April 6, 1888 in Berlin and died on February 1, 1976 in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. One of the founders of the Dada movement, he was active in Zürich, Switzerland from 1916 to 1920. He moved to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen.
Richter was also the author of a first-hand account of the Dada movement titled Dada: Art and Anti-Art. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans Richter (artist) [Oct 2004]
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) - Man Ray, Hans Richter
This ambitious work of the American avant-garde consists of several "inner visions", based on ideas (and enacted) by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, and Alexander Calder. Their infatigable creator is the famous Dadaist painter and avant-garde film pioneer Hans Richter. The unusual scores were by Paul Bowles, Darius Milhaud, John Cage, and Edgar Varese. --Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel
The most private artist of our generation -- Marcel Duchamp -- here shows himself fully, exhibiting his famous moving discs to the camera many years after their creation. The expression is proud, defiant, secret, and of an inner sadness. --Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel
8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) - Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter
Jean Cocteau in a curiously reverential still shot from Richter's "chess" film, in which Arp, Tanguy, Duchamp, and others perform as chess pieces. This episode, "Queening of the Pawn", was written and directed by Cocteau. --Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos VogelDada: Art and Anti-Art (1965) - Hans Richter
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Dada: Art and Anti-Art (1965) - Hans Richter [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
"Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace," writes Hans Richter, who was associated with the movement from its early days. Here, through selections from key manifestos and other documents of the time, he records Dada's history, from its beginnings in wartime Zurich to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s. Dada led on from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism, and in turn prepared the way for Surrealism. It was enlivened by bizarre and extravagant personalities, notably Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Man Ray, whose contributions are fully discussed. The spirit of Dada reappeared in the 1960s in movements such as Pop Art, which are surveyed in the final section. --amazon.com
The late Hans Richter was well known as both a painter, a filmmaker, and sire of the Dada movementborn in Zurich around the time of the First World War. Here, through selections from key manifestos and other documents of the time, is Dada's history, including its "death" in the 1920s and reincarnation during the '60s. Hans Richter died in 1976. 179 illus. 8 in color. --Ingram
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