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1. Find a relevant book (e.g., from your assigned readings?)
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e.g., Click on Subject Headings in the record to see further results and related topics; and/or combine these subject phrases with other keywords for a more focused search:

Title::	Dada's subject and structure: performing ideology poorly
Author	Pelcher, Brandon
Subjects:	Dada
	Dadaism

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Broader Contexts:

• Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
• Cubism
• Futurism

Narrower Focuses:

• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Germany.

Sample titles found using the above methods:

• Challenging modernity: Dada between modern and postmodern
• Dada
• Dada and surrealist art
• The Dada painters and poets: an anthology
• The Dada reader: a critical anthology
• Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the unmaking of the twentieth century
• Languages of revolt: Dada and surrealist literature and film
• Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3
• Pasts, futures, and aftermaths: revisiting the Black Dada reader
• Women in Dada: essays on sex, gender, and identity

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