The Birth of Dada. Poetry and Chronicle of the Founders

ARP, HUELSENBECK & TZARA. The Birth of Dada. Poetry and Chronicle of the Founders. With photographs and documents. Zurich, Verlag der Arche, 1957. 8vo square format (approx. 21×21 cm). Publisher's boards with illustrated color dust jacket. First edition of this capital testimony on the birth of Dadaism, written by the three protagonists of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The volume collects poems, manifestos, documents and period photographs documenting the genesis of the most iconoclastic movement of the twentieth century. The dust jacket, with its constructivist design playing on the letters DADA in black on red and black geometric fields, has itself become an icon of modernist graphic design. Copy in generally good condition with dust jacket present, a decisive element for collectible value. Work sought after by collectors of historical avant-gardes, art history and twentieth-century graphic design.