Founded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of textual documentation relating to Dada. Its partner institution, the Fine Arts Dada Archive, emphasizes the visual documentation of Dada.

The collection of the International Dada Archive is scattered throughout the University of Iowa Libraries; most of its holdings are in either the Main Library or the Art Library. The collection includes books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, videorecordings, sound recordings, and a few computer files. The primary access to the entire collection is through a card catalog indexing an estimated 47,000 titles, and an online catalog containing approximately 42,000 titles (the International Online Bibliography of Dada). (Click here for more information on the International Online Bibliography of Dada.)

The Archive has microfilmed a number public and private manuscript collections containing material on the Dada movement and on individual Dadaists. Detailed finding aids exist for each of these microfilmed collections.

Scholars are welcome to visit the Archive to conduct research. Those planning to visit from out of town should make appointments well in advance, since access to the Archive is extremely limited when the curator is away.

Click here for a longer introduction to the Dada movement and the International Dada Archive.

For further information on the International Dada Archive, please contact the Curator, Timothy Shipe, at the address below. In the absence of the Curator, please contact the Director, Rudolf E. Kuenzli.

International Dada Archive
Timothy Shipe, Curator
100 Main Library
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
(319) 335-5824
e-mail: timothy-shipe@uiowa.edu

Prof. Rudolf E. Kuenzli, Director
413 EPB
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335-0324
e-mail: rudolf-kuenzli@uiowa.edu

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Last updated: January 8, 2002