The New York pre-school - Dada art, various artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Art in America, June, 1997 by Marcia E. Vetrocq

[1.] Duchamp in a letter to Walter Pach, April 1915, cited by Francis M. Naumann, New York Dada: 1915-1923, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1994, p. 35. [2.] Ibid., p. 203. [3.] Neil Baldwin, Man Ray: American Artist, New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1988, p. 74. [4.] Cited in Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1975, p. 8. [5.] Naumann, New York Dada, and Marius de Zayas, How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York, Francis M. Naumann, ed., Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1996.

"Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York" was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York [Nov. 21, 1996-Feb. 23, 1997]. The show did not travel.

Author: Marcia E. Vetrocq is professor of fine arts at the University of New Orleans.