Word: anti-art
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...strength of the play is in the first act. Carr's friend, the Dadaist Tristan Tzara drops by for tea. Carr gets an explanation of anti-art, says Dada in Zurich is the high point of European culture-topographically speaking-and proclaims, "My art belongs to Dada!" But the best scene is a confrontation between Joyce and Tzara, who is hard at work cutting up volumes of poetry, putting the scraps in his hat, and drawing them out randomly to create anti-poetry. Joyce has come to borrow money for his English Players, but stays to argue with Tzara...
...Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published his authoritative account, Dada: Art and Anti-Art...
...Mona Lisa with a moustache. He generated an atmosphere of uncertainty intended to liberate the relevance of art. What has grown in the gap left by Dada's failed promise is not only the staunchness of the New Conservatives but also a dangerously pre-emptive sort of subjectivism in contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces...
These sorts of criticism obviously strike at the very ideological foundation of the Center. To ask that it offer courses in painting is almost heretical given its professed anti-art school attitudes. As one student remarked, "Teaching painting would be like teaching Communism." And to ask the department to become more creation-oriented in general is to fly in the face of its expressed statement of purpose. Art was always going to be a happy by-product, if it was ever achieved at all, at Carpenter Center...
Dadism, starting in Zurich after World War I, was anti-art--the art of rebellion, aimed at attacking traditional sensibilities, shocking them, and confusing them. Surrealism followed, combining cubism and dadism, using often grotesque fantasy and dream elements to attempt an art of the sub-conscious and irrational...