Word: dada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Included in the exhibit are samples of the Dada movement, whese adherents preached the worthlessness of human endeavor and the non-existence of spiritual values. This school reflected the nihilist sentiment that culminated in the outbreak of Nazism...
...indeed paradoxical that Kurt Schwitters, representing the Dada school, created in contemptuous revolt against established canons of aesthetics, should appear at Busch-Reisinger this month as a champion of those very values. Gathering bits and scraps of color and print in the form of collages, Schwitters manipulates a poetic play of shape and hue, charming, intimate, yet positive and aesthetically unequivocal. Paul Klee's lithograph, "Destruction and Hope," not his best in that form, sings out with more hope than destruction because it contains more poetry than pathos...
...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...
...stayed in Paris, painting and photographing, and became a leading exponent of dada's successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted, photographed and lectured. In 1951 he went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works, but never more than two hours at a stretch. "I like to work at white heat for short periods," he explains. Painting is his main love, but photography brings in more money. Like a true dadaist, Ray scorns credit for the unquestionable skill of his photographs: "Many photographers consider themselves...
...named when a knife was plunged into a French dictionary, stabbed the word dada, meaning, appropriately, "hobbyhorse...