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...this reckoning, Communism and the Resistance movement were the major episodes in the education of France's brilliant Poet-Essayist-Novelist Louis Aragon, 63. Aragon was always in revolt; before he became a Communist in 1927, he was one of the daddies of Dadaism and switched later to the surrealist movement. As an underground fighter, he fought with conspicuous gallantry against the Nazis. After the war, Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line...
What did Joans ("My poems are American neo-Dadaism") have to say to such an audience? "I told them what the beats are really like," he explains. "Everybody thinks the beats always smoke pot, smell horrible, and all that jazz. I take a bath every day, man. People also think beat girls like free sex. Listen, some of these chicks are so far out that's the last thing they think of. One I know says, 'Sit across the room; just being near me should be sexy enough...
What emerges if these four types are added together? Dadaism, surrealism, stream-of-consciousness-ism and many another esthetic "ism" spring, obviously. from sources akin to those of Rousseau, Satie, Jarry and Apollinaire. Author Shattuck tries hard-and on the whole unsuccessfully-to cram all these tricks into a single bag. Despite the hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While...
...Dadaism. In London, Artist Pierre de Villiers, who failed to sell a picture for eight straight years at the open-air art show on the banks of the Thames, easily sold for five guineas ($14.70) an abstract expressionist painting by his three-year-old son Romany...
...Dadaism is passe. There are few epitaphs less devastating for any school of art. In fact, any school which comes into the world shouting about revolutions and complete detachment can usually expect not to outlive its own boisterous exclamations. Nevertheless, most of the things here are not high Dada. The studies of El Lissitzky, Max Ernst, Moholy Nagy, Malewich and Hannah Hoch more often reflect a kind of experimentalism which hovers tenuously in the nether regions of design, just outside the gates of one muse or another. Every so often, of course, a Mondrian or a Klee comes along...