Word: dada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DADA AND SURREALIST WORD-IMAGE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Between 1915 and 1940, painters like Max Ernst and Paul Klee experimented by juxtaposing images with written words, permanently altering the vocabulary of visual art. This adventurous exhibition explores the relationship not only between word and image but also between language, art and psychology. Through...
After Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels ended the bloody regime of Idi Amin Dada in Uganda ten years ago, the deposed dictator retreated into quiet exile in Saudi Arabia. But last week he stepped off an Air Zaire jet in Kinshasa and tried to enter the country under a false passport. Zaire officials are expected to put their unwelcome visitor on the next plane back to Saudi Arabia. But it remains a mystery whether Amin, who was traveling with his son, was merely trying to visit Zaire or making his way back to Uganda...
...1920s and '30s as a painter and a maker of often whimsical objects, such as a flatiron with a row of tacks attached. Photography was almost an afterthought, a means of recording his sometimes perishable constructions. But Ray's camera also captured an era -- when art belonged to Dada -- that this book scrupulously assembles and preserves...
...terms. The only answer was to drop out of the comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL, NO, WE WON'T GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand-up too. Who better than the child of Disneyland and Wittgenstein...
...avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong. They both disliked vorticism, the remarkable English movement that combined elements of cubism, futurism and Dada and centered on the belligerent genius of Wyndham Lewis, painter, soldier, novelist, critic and editor of Blast. Bell in 1917 sneered at the "new spirit in the little backwater, called English vorticism, which already gives signs of being as insipid as any other puddle of provincialism," and thereafter the Bloomsberries...