Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things have not been going particularly well in Uganda lately. On top of the steady deterioration of the economy and continuing strife within the army, two of President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada's top civilian ministers turned up in Kenya within the past fortnight. Shortly afterward, Amin announced that he was giving the rest of his Cabinet a month's vacation-presumably a prelude to a major shakeup. "A human being is a human being," Big Daddy explained, "and like a car he needs refueling and fresh air after working for a long time...
...Ernst will be 82 this year. He is rightly held to be one of the fathers of modern art, having outlasted most of his progeny. Dada and Surrealism, the movements that he helped fertilize, are now ticketed and labeled. Their revolutionary ambitions have been reduced to connoisseurship and slipped into the museum. Most of Ernst's allies in the Surrealist adventure are dead...
Last month Rice University's Institute for the Arts in Houston opened a remarkable tribute to the inexhaustible Max: the 104 Ernsts acquired in the past 30 years by Houston's leading collectors, John and Dominique de Menil. In its range-from early Dada collages to the remarkable but underrated bronzes of the artist as sculptor-this is one of the most remarkable private collections of Ernst in the world...
Pedigree. Ernst went to the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, and psychiatry at a time, 1909, when the subject was barely acknowledged as a discipline. After serving in the German artillery in World War I, he continued painting, and eventually reached Paris at a time when Dada was in full swing and Surrealism was about to be born. One purpose of Dada was to negate everything that art had stood for in the past. Yet Ernst's love of images that rise from chance blots has a pedigree that goes back to Leonardo, who spoke of finding battle scenes...
Uganda's military dictator, General Idi ("BigDaddy") Amin Dada, had carefully arranged that each of the twelve men he wanted to execute should be shot in his own home town. The reason: so that "everyone, including his parents, can see." Last week, in seven separate ceremonies before crowds of coerced and sullen spectators, alleged guerrillas were dragged from police Land Rovers, tied to trees or stakes in stadiums, city parks or mere clearings and then shot to death with bursts of automatic rifle fire. At Mbale, where 3,000 people showed up for the event, an army captain...