Sat, 7 June 2008
We are indebted to Tristan Tzara and his followers for the newest
and perhaps the most important doctrinary insistence as applied to art
which has appeared in a long time. Dada-ism is the latest phase of
modernism in painting as well as in literature, and carries with it all
the passion for freedom of expression which Marinetti sponsored so
loudly in his futuristic manifestos. It adds likewise an exhilarating
quality of nihilism, imbibed, as it is said, directly from the author
of Zarathustra. Reading a fragment of the documentary statement of
Dada-ism, we find that the charm of the idea exists mainly in the fact
that they wish all things levelled in the mind of man to the degree of
commonplaceness which is typical and peculiar to it.
Nothing is greater than anything else, is what the Dada believes... --Marsden Hartley, 1921
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