Word: dadaism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aesthetic exigencies of his own age, Ungaretti shared with his close friends Apollinaire and the Fauvist Braque a profound despair over history's irrationality. But Apollinaire never survived the War, and those who did were so shattered and forlorn that their only response was that of an iconoclastic Dadaism...
Black Humor & Dadaism. The literary pulse in Eastern Europe varies wildly from country to country, but the cracking of Communist theories and alliances has produced more relaxation almost everywhere. Instead of hacking about the glorious revolution, writers are turning to subjects that range from black humor to dadaism-and the regimes are increasingly helpless to stop the flow. For anyone who doubts the trend, the Czechoslovak Communist Writers' Union weekly Literárni Noviny (Literary News) last week completed the final installment of an eleven-part series. Its title: "God Is Not Completely Dead...
...beginning was 1959, and the word was happening. Drawing on the antics of Dadaism and surrealism, Manhattan Artist Allan Kaprow decided to stage a series of highly unorthodox, one-shot performances for a handful of friends in Greenwich Village. Read the invitation: "Think of a buying spree at Macy's; how to grow geraniums in New York. Do not look for paintings, sculpture, the dance or music...
...stoic banking center of Zurich is the only city in stolid Switzerland that can claim to have fostered an art movement. Ironically, it was dadaism, which purported to prize meaninglessness over meaning. The movement was born one day in 1916 in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, where a couple of artistic types flipped open a dictionary and chose the first word that struck their...
Megaphones blared "Dada is all!" A brass band blasted off-key. And, heaven forfend, even the mayor, Emil Landolt, showed up to solemnly read a dada poem: "Switzerland is Dada. /Dada is nothing. /Superfluous mountains keep Switzerland from achieving concrete Dadaism. /Level the mountains...