The Blind Man was an art and Dada

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

 journal published by the New York Dadaists in 1917.

Henri-Pierre Roche

Henri-Pierre Roché

Henri-Pierre Roché was a French author who was deeply involved with the artistic avant-garde in Paris and the Dada movement.- Biography :Roché was born in Paris, France. In 1898, he was an art student at the Académie Julian....

, Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic...

, and Mina Loy

Mina Loy

Mina Loy born Mina Gertrude Löwry was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S...

 contributed to the first, Independents' Number issue; Walter Arensberg

Walter Arensberg

Walter Conrad Arensberg was an American art collector, critic and poet. His father was part owner and president of a crucible steel company. He majored in English and philosophy at Harvard University...

 (Axiom, Theorem, poems), Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia (Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. -Biography:Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres...

, essay), Robert Carlton (Bob) Brown (poems), Frank Crowninshield

Frank Crowninshield

Francis Welch Crowninshield , better known as Frank or Crownie , was an American journalist and art and theatre critic best known for developing and editing the magazine Vanity Fair for 21 years, making it a pre-eminent literary journal.-Personal life:Crowninshield was born June 24, 1872 in Paris,...

 (letter), Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism....

 (For Richard Mutt, poem), Marcel Duchamp, Charles Duncan (poem), an essay about Louis Michael Eilshemius

Louis Eilshemius

Louis Michel Eilshemius was an American painter, primarily of landscapes and nudes. Although he was academically trained, much of his work has the unself-aware character of naive art...

, Mina Loy (prose), Louise Norton (essay), Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...

 (Medusa, poem), Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella was an Italian-born, American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s....

 (Coney Island, picture), Frances Simpson Stevens (1894-1976) (poem), Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...

 (Fountain by R. Mutt, photography; letter) and Clara Tice (drawing) to the second. The magazine only saw two editions to publication.

Volume 2 is best known for the group's reaction to the rejection of Duchamp's Fountain

Fountain (Duchamp)

Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades. In such pieces he made use of an already existing object. In this case Duchamp used a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". Readymades also go by the term Found object...

to a 1917 unjuried art show.

External links

• Digital scans of The Blindman: Independents' Number, No. 1
• Digital scans of The Blind Man, No. 2.
• Essay about Dada publications