Dada Affect: The Production of Affect in Erwin Blumenfeld, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters KU Leuven
This project studies the ways in which three Dadaist writers-cum-visual artists, Erwin Blumenfeld, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters, during and shortly after the First World War, deployed their formally experimental work to condition their audience to experience alternative types of affect. Building on the theory and history of affect, the project distinguishes affect from personal emotion and defines affect as a socially shared, ...