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Raoul Hausmann (Berlin, June 1919) — scan; Walter Serner, Letzte Lockerung: manifest dada (Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1920) — Google Books copy; Hugo Ball, Flametti, oder vom Dandysmus der Armen, Roman (1918), dedicated to Emmy Hennings; Adolf Knoblauch, Dada, with a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger (Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, Der jüngste Tag, 1919)", "language": "fra; deu", "license": { "payload": "Public domain in the United States: every item published 1917–1921. EU status per author: PD-EU — Ball (d. 1927), Serner (d. 1942), Picabia (d. 1953), Knoblauch (d. 1951); NOT PD-EU — Tzara (d. 1963), Arp (d. 1966), Hausmann (d. 1971), Feininger (d. 1956 → 2027). Payload/record split per EA-CORPORA-02/01. 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Ball's sound poems ('Karawane', 'Gadji beri bimba') were printed in the Dada Almanach (Berlin, 1920), not located in a public-domain witness; QUEUED. Schwitters's Anna Blume (1919) not located; Ursonate (1932) is in copyright in the United States until 2028.", "verified_loci": [ "Dada 3 (December 1918) — Tzara's manifesto of 1918, opening 'Pour lancer un manifeste' (the text layer reads 'il faut vouioir' for 'il faut vouloir')", "Vingt-cinq poèmes (1918) — the Arp woodcuts credited", "Serner, Letzte Lockerung (1920) — the title, in the text layer", "Picabia, Pensées sans langage (1919) — the dedication to Ribemont-Dessaignes, Marcel Duchamp and Tristan Tzara" ], "loci_not_found": [], "lines_total": 23356, "why_seated": "The negation the archive's negative ontology has to stand next to. Dada declares that the work is its own refusal, and the journal is where the refusal was printed as a programme, issue by issue.", "spine": "Dada", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-15: \"we need more seatings of avant garde literature. dada. farce. oulipo. futurist. - whatevers in the public domain. originals is good on classics, impoverished on modern. and i want the italian troubadors. and pound, more pound. need the cantos.\" — \"and the concrete poets\" — \"also need jarry, schlovsky, etc\" — \"it gets an ea-corpora deposit and a spine and a card on tll, bulk seatings per ea-corpora deposit is fine\"." }