Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short speech that Sudan's Numeiri generously described as "vivid and cheerful," Idi Amin Dada of Uganda offered a few of his customary impromptu bons mots. One contained a sardonic ring of truth: "I guess I should say a few words about liberation fronts and the Palestinian people, since you are not at the OAU unless you mention those things...
...SPRING OF 1920 was a hard time for Joan Miro. The young Catalan had arrived in Paris from Spain in early 1919 when pre-war intellectual and artistic conceptions, like the European balance of power, had been swept away in blood and destruction of the World War. The Dada movement was the new wave in art--but only of the moment. And Miro, though he remained somewhat aloof from its influence, would come to be acknowledged as the formal master of the surrealist movement which grew as Dada disintegrated...
...drip down with the sheer weight of the paint and hence bulge at the ends like some monstrous pseudopodia of amoebae. This biomorphis is a common feature of the works--the fusion of natural and artificial objects is like that of Jean Arp, the founder of the Zurich Dada movement who later associated with both Surrealists and Abstractionists. "Le Samourai" brings to mind one of the anthropomorphisizing and metamorphosizing images of Arp: "A stone voice face to face and foot to foot with a stone glance." The thick black strokes are superimposed on a square of purple that shades into...
...expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized society. It had few political ambitions-as German Dada did-but it did carry a strong current of social idealism. This did not show itself so much in Utopian schemes as in a vague aspiration toward spiritual improvement, salvation through sensitivity, the obverse of which was the weird consumptive eroticism of Schiele. If Schiele was the Cranach of the movement, Beckmann...
...Amin Dada, Uganda's self-appointed President for Life, addressing a crowd of supporters and newsmen: "I wanted to assure you that whatever has been said about violations of so-called human rights doesn't exist here. Since you came, how many people have you found dead...