Word: dadaistic
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...later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, the Dadaist Man Ray and, strange to say, Leon Trotsky, who briefly studied art at the Ferrer School in New York when Henri was teaching there...
...arbitrary randomness, programmed chance operations and a nearly value-free definition of what constitutes music a satisfactory basis for an aesthetic? Was Cage the great artist his admirers proclaim, or was he merely an ersatz Dadaist, proudly parading around in his emperor's new clothes as he pursued a whole-grain, crackpot anarchism? "Rolywholyover A Circus," on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles through Nov. 28 and due to travel to Houston, New York City, Japan and Philadelphia over the next two years, provides some answers...
...Wilmot town hall, a couple of miles from his farm, Hall recently read from his gigantic baseball poem. "I would like to linger with Schwitters in the Fenway bleachers, explaining baseball . . . Well, there are nine players . . ." That's Kurt Schwitters, the defunct German Dadaist, Hall explained somewhat obscurely. Fenway needs no explanation; it is the ball park of tragedy where the Red Sox writhe...
...little Oedipus Max, the future Dadaist, had a dream, an obsessive vision: "I see in front of me a panel crudely painted with large black strokes on a red ground, imitating the grain of mahogany . . . In front of this panel a black and shiny man is making slow, comic and joyously obscene gestures. This strange fellow has the mustache of my father . . . He smiles and takes out of the pocket of his trousers a large pencil made of some soft material . . . breathing loudly, he hastily traces some black lines on the panel of false mahogany. He quickly gives...
...aviator, prototype of the new Soviet Man, gazing at a gaggle of photographs of Czars and White Russian officers pasted on upside down and annulled by a white X -- are hopeful agitprop, infused with the same clean sharp humor that ran through the work of her German contemporary, the Dadaist Hannah Hoch...