A 1917 Dada magazine defended a urinal as art, and now you can read it free
A 1917 Dada magazine defended a urinal as art, and now you can read it free Mark Frauenfelder 9:34 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 International Dada Archive Blind Man — The Blind Man, No. 2 (1917), via the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries Today, Open Culture posted about the International Dada Archive, which has a great collection of scanned pamphlets and zines from the Dada art movement in the early 20th century. I could only find one magazine in English in the collection, called The Blind Man.
- ▪A 1917 Dada magazine defended a urinal as art, and now you can read it free Mark Frauenfelder 9:34 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 International Dada Archive Blind Man — The Blind Man, No.
- ▪2 (1917), via the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries Today, Open Culture posted about the International Dada Archive, which has a great collection of scanned pamphlets and zines from the Dada art movement in the early
- ▪I could only find one magazine in English in the collection, called The Blind Man.
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A 1917 Dada magazine defended a urinal as art, and now you can read it free Mark Frauenfelder 9:34 am Tue Sep 22, 2026 International Dada Archive Blind Man — The Blind Man, No. 2 (1917), via the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries Today, Open Culture posted about the International Dada Archive, which has a great collection of scanned pamphlets and zines from the Dada art movement in the early 20th century. I could only find one magazine in English in the collection, called The Blind Man. It was published in New York in 1917 and was edited by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri-Pierre Roché. The 1st issue came out 4 days after the U.S. declared war on Germany in April 1917.
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