Tag Archives: Cabaret Voltaire

TIE DYE REVOLUTIONISTS: BAD CHEMICAL REACTION

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Dave

Yesterday’s radicalism fades in unaccountable ways into today’s reaction, and what the revolutionaries intended to build may turn out the precise reverse. ( Hannah Arendt ) What was new with the 60′s counter-culture was the sheer mass character of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Arnold Toynbee, Baudelaire, Beatles, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Byron, Cabaret Voltaire, Dada, Dope Inc. Dave McGowan, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Hannah Arendt, Heinz Edelmann, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Milton Glaser, Picabia, Picasso, Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Sam Huntington, Schwitters, Stillman, Timothy Leary, Yellow Submarine | 4 Comments

Photomontage, Berlin Dada & Adolf Scissorhands

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Dave

Dada did not have homogenous and formal characteristics as other art styles. Dada cannot be considered an art style per se, but in general, an anti-art movement that began as a response to the mercantilism and colonialism that gave rise … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Art, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Berlin Dada, Cabaret Voltaire, George Grosz, Giorgio de Chirico, Hannah Hoch, Herzfeld Brothers, Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, photomontage, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck | 4 Comments

Cabaret Voltaire

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Dave

The Cabaret Voltaire was an avant-garde group of artist/intellectuals who performed at a bar of the same name in Zurich at the height of the Great War. I viewed some images of anti-Hitler artwork produced by the Berlin school so … Continue reading →