Word: dada
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...critics to breathe his name with that of Matisse and Picasso. But his drawings have long been taken seriously by advanced students of fantasy, and one sketch of a lady's alcoholic visions was hung (under the heading of Miracles and Anomalies) at the outstanding Fantastic Art-Dada-Surrealism show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Old Thurber, anything but pompous, once described himself as follows...
...weeks: This is the age of the index finger-of poking and prying. The baby sits up by himself, plucks a string, creeps, pulls himself to his feet against the railing of his pen. He can say "mama, dada," and one other word. At mealtime he holds his bottle...
...well-known family of international diplomats is that of Gade (rhymes with dada), which stems from the late Gerhard Gade, onetime Norwegian Minister to the U. S. His son. Captain John A. Gade. is U. S. Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism (December...
...method: thorough research, orderly classification of the work shown, equal respect for every experimental artist whether probably great or palpably minor, explanatory notes for the public. Not all the Museum's shows have been revelations, some have been merely precious, but the documented catalogues for Abstract Art and Dada-Surrealism, in particular, were thorough jobs of making-art- intelligible-while-it's-hot. Among other decidedly valuable contributions to art literature was Photography 1830-1937, by the Museum's scholarly Librarian Beaumont Newhall...