dada(ism)art as anarchy

what the heck is it?

0 international movement in art and literature that used ridicule and nonsense to reflect what was considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world

0 anti-war, anti-art, and anti-bourgeois movement0 anarchistic movement that challenged traditional

perceptions of art as well as provoked a reexamination of social and moral values

why?

0Dada artists believed that traditional society supports (law, faith, culture, economy, etc) failed to prevent WWI

0So, they declared a “war” on tradition and criticized formal institutions and conventional art

0 Instead they expressed ABSURDITY, SPONTANEITY, and FREE WILL—not just to shock but for imagination

0Used new methods, materials, and technologies

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0originally, to express anger over the war0 later, to attack the art establishment which was aligned

with middle class society 0 to destroy those systems based on reason and logic and

replace them with ones based on anarchy, the primitive, and the irrational

characteristics of dada

0Elementary0 anonymous and collective0 spontaneous, random, and provocative0 toy-like0primitive

mythic origins of the word “dada”

0 first word a baby utters?0 "yes, yes" in Romanian?0 "hobby-horse" in French?0word found at random in the dictionary?

marcel duchamp man ray tristan tzara

Mona LisaMarcel Duchamp

FountainMarcel Duchamp

"Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man."

-Art Reviewer

Dada is a dog - a compass - the lining of the stomach - neither new nor a nude Japanese girl - a gasometer of jangled feelings - Dada is brutal and doesn't go in for propaganda - Dada is a quantity of life in transparent, effortless and gyratory transformation.

DADA is a virgin microbe DADA is against the high cost of living DADA limited company for the exploitation of ideas DADA has 391 different attitudes and colours according to the sex of the president It changes - affirms - says the opposite at the same time - no importance - shouts - goes fishing. Dada is the chameleon of rapid and self-interested change. Dada is against the future. Dada is dead. Dada is absurd. Long live Dada. Dada is not a literary school, howl

A priori, in other words with its eyes closed, Dada places before action and above all: Doubt. DADA doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease: selfkleptomania, man's normal condition, is DADA. But the real dadas are against DADA.

to make a dadaist poemby tristan tzara

0 Take a newspaper.0 Take a pair of scissors.0 Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.0 Cut out the article.0 Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a

bag.0 Shake it gently.0 Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left

the bag.0 Copy conscientiously.0 The poem will be like you.0 And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility

that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.

the fibres give in to your starry warmtha lamp is called green and seescarefully stepping into a season of feverthe wind has swept the rivers' magicand i've perforated the nerveby the clear frozen lakehas snapped the sabrebut the dance round terrace tablesshuts in the shock of the marble shuddernew sober

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