Word: dadaism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris police force, was purely coincidental. George AntheiFs Fourth Symphony, elegantly broadcast by Leopold Stokowski and the N.B.C. Symphony, was easily the loudest and liveliest symphonic composition to turn up in years. It was also testimony that Composer Antheil, once the No. i bad boy of U.S. musical dadaism, had come home to solid schmaltz...
...Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...
...characters of two men: the wretched bookbinder Quinette who committed his first murder in Volume I and has kept up a planned, gratuitous, sterile string of them backstage ever since; a newcomer. Claude Vorge, a writer, who represents those deliberately irrational strains in art and conduct called dadaism, nihilism, diabolism...
...doesn't like: 1) the highly individualistic sort (spattery impressionism, cubist geometry, African-influenced neo-primitives, Freudian surrealist nightmares) that made Paris the artistic capital of the pre-war world; 2) art that does not glamorize war and womanhood. Says he: "Cubism, dadaism, futurism, impressionism and the rest have nothing in common with our German people. For all these notions are neither old nor are they modern; they are simply the artificial stammering of people whom God has denied the boon of genuine artistic talent and given instead the gift of prating and deception...