Word: dadaist
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...Dadaist who is still alive and well and living in Paris, transformed his hat block into a blockhead by adding dark glasses and a scholar's mortarboard. L'Imposteur reads the caption at the bottom. Martin Carey, a fine-line draftsman of frogs, insects and flowers, turned his block on its side, decorated it with butterflies and found, much to his surprise, that it reminded him of both an owl and a soldier's helmet. Jasper Johns coated his block with metallic plaster-and his dealer put a price of $9,000 on it. Andy Warhol stripped...
...tolerance. Recently, however, an enthusiastic Vian cult has been growing among French students, and the critics have begun to speak of L'Ecume des Jours, L'Automne à Pékin, and the play The Empire Builders, with increasing respect, giving Vian a place in the tradition of Dadaist humor, the Theater of the Absurd, and modern French poetry...
...fabrics and colored papers upon other bits of paper. Like visual haiku, they proclaim their sureness and their charm with an absolute economy of means. A sometime poetess and six times a grandmother, Ryan took to collage in 1948 after seeing an exhibition of the collages of the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters. Her own instincts led her toward ladylike materials: failles, polka-dot ginghams and tulles. Betty Parsons, the pioneering dealer whose gallery introduced abstract expressionism to Manhattan in the late 1940s, has also at one time or another represented Jackson, Kulicke and Ryan. "It's amazing," says Parsons...
WHILE MOST OF YOU were perishing in the diabolical black fire of this neo-Dadaist life in America, agonizing over Harvard's impending football doom like a particle in the livid-frigid Flux, I decided to drop in on the Cecilia Society and the Glee Club concerts at the still point of the burning world. "Song is the key," I reasoned, "for only the rapture of song links such disparate spirits as Arjuna, Chemosh, Mailer, Nixon, Tristan, Bruckner, and the confluence of latent universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions...
...that constructivism was the true art of the masses because it was part of the machine age. It could be mass-produced, it married impractical art to socially useful architecture, and it represented a departure from the decadent realism of the Czarist past. With mixed feeling, Berlin's Dadaist Raoul Hausmann contrived a photomontage "portrait" of Tatlin in which his brain is a mass of machinery topped by a dentist's drill...