Shannon Connelly

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Dr. Shannon Connelly is an independent scholar with two decades of experience as a philanthropy worker and administrator for museums and universities based in New York, Beirut, El Paso, and New Mexico. Her research on German modernism has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Dedalus Foundation, and the DAAD, and her writing has appeared in Kunst und Politik, caa.reviews, and Post Road Magazine.

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Georg Scholz’s Posterliness

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In June 1920, the German artist Georg Scholz received an urgent dispatch to his home in the small town of Grötzingen, near Karlsruhe—an invitation to show his work in the forthcoming First International Dada Fair in Berlin. This irreverent exhibition featured more than 170 objects that its organizers referred to as “products” (“Erzeugnisse”). [1] Large format text posters and oversized photographic portraits called down from the gallery walls and asserted that Dada was enormous, expansive, and...

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