Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Introduction by John Elderfield
Chronology

Foreword to the 1946 Edition by Emmy Ball-Hennings

PART ONE
Prologue: The Backdrop
Romanticism: The Word and the Image

PART TWO
On the Rights of God and Man
Flight to the Fundamental

APPENDIX
Dada Manifesto
Kandinsky

Endnotes: Ball's Sources
Afterword by John Elderfield
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Hugo Ball (1886-1927) was the author of Herman Hesse, His Life and Work and Flight Out of Time, his edited diaries from 1910-1921, published in German editions in 1927. John Elderfield is Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the author of books on Henri Matisse, Kurt Schwitters, and others.

Reviews

"A rich feast for historians, art lovers and devotees of esoteric literature."--"Publishers Weekly