Word: dadaism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes little difference where one studies the record, whether of surrealism, dadaism, abstractionism, cubism, expressionism or futurism. The evidence of evil design is everywhere...The question is...who has brought down this curse upon us; who has let into our homeland this horde of germ-carrying art vermin...
...course in "The Development of Romance Culture" could cover a topical range from national heroic poetry such as La Chanson de Roland and the Cid through Dante and Victor Huge to realism, naturalism, dadaism--even existentialism. One member of the Department's staff envisions "high selectivity" and a departure from the customary survey course pattern stressing detailed names of books and authors. "From the specialist's point of view it would all be superfluous," he ventures, but who cares...
Underwear without Picasso. Rand's ads are sometimes as pristine as good abstract painting, sometimes as jumbled as Dadaism on an off-day. But unlike many frustrated ad artists who like to paint "the real thing" on Sundays, Rand believes he can put his art into ads. Generally, a Rand ad looks disarmingly simple when done, but obviously took a lot of thinking. "Briefly," he explains in his book, "the designer experiences, perceives, analyzes, organizes, symbolizes, synthesizes." Rand is against "using Picasso to sell underwear," believes that "to design a liquor ad you should know what...
Buenos Aires citizens had heard about such artistic and philosophic vagaries from Dadaism and surrealism to existentialism, yawned at the Madists, and that was not to be borne. This week the Madists were across the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay, seeking a new public. In Montevideo's Salon Aiape, visitors gaped and grinned at sculpture of strangely articulated sticks of wood by Giyulia Kosice (see cut), an irregularly framed abstract painting by Arden Quinn, a collection of odd pieces of paper covered with gibberish...
Words & Ink. In Paris since liberation, Existentialism had called forth more words and more ink than any intellectual movement since Dadaism ushered in Europe's "lost generation" after World War I. Existentialism has its long-haired snobbish fringe, the butt of short-haired cartoonists (see cut). But the word has filtered down to everyman's and everywoman's level...