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- ↑ Motherwell, Robert (1981). The Dada Painters and Poets (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. xxxviii.
- ↑ "Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling". { feuilleton }. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
