Word: dada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern design starts with such 19th century artists as William Morris, the members of the arts and crafts movement in England, and the art nouveauists, who all felt a messianic urge to put art into everyday items. Dada and surrealism came along to mock them-but then the International Style, the architectural rubric of glass-and-steel boxes, came along to mock the mockers. Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, for example, all set about to design better chairs for man to plop in, and, save a sore sacroiliac...
RICHARD STANKIEWICZ-Stable, 33 East 74th. Dada takes the credit, but the ability to look at trash and find something of esthetic value begins with children. As a child, Stankiewicz played in a foundry dump; today he leads the sculptors who make assemblages of junk. Scavenging in scrapyards, rusting and welding the iron and steel he finds, he makes figures and abstractions. Says he: "I take something already degenerating, discarded, and then I make something beautiful of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' " Through April...
...edge? Many visitors to Richard Lindner's latest show at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery suffer an uninformed urge to link his art to the latest fads of the newest artists. But Lindner is 62; his paintings are a liaison with the past and Europe. Groomed by Dada and formed by cubism, he shows how the art that shocks today is resolutely linked to the art that shocked yesteryear...
...giant figure, an irrepressible rebel against stuffy conventions, a decisive experimental voice in modern French poetry, and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting. For most of the rest of the world, he was little more than an obscure bohemian scribbler from the heady pre-Dada days in Paris when it was still possible for the bohemians to think that society needed their help in turning itself inside out and upside down...
KURT SCHWITTERS-Chalette, 1100 Madison Ave. at 82nd St. Schwitters dabbled in Dada before embracing an equally nutty style that he labeled Merz. This retrospective of his Merz-drenched collages suggests that yesterday's Dada is today's Pop. Through...