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Tag Archives: Dada Movement
dada and definition : what is becomes
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) back in 1939, after several years of quiet inactivity (if you think of chess as inactivity), the great godhead conceptualist dadaist/anti-artist marcel duchamp, introduced his awesome “rotorelief” series. the art world was (like always) terribly confused, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Benito Mussolini, Dada Movement, dada political movement, Dadaist Art, Filippo Marinetti, Italian Futurist art, Marcel Duchamp, marcel duchamp kinetic sculptures, marcel duchamp ready mades, marcel duchamp rotoreliefs
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cringing at reminders of the adventurous
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) so far as i know, his is the only surviving copy of the poster i made for my very first showing of my ‘work’ in a gallery space. it dates back to (i think) 1977 … Continue reading
dada chess: logic vs. transcendence
Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading
CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT
”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, August Macke, Dada Movement, Dadaist Art, David Lewis, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hinton, George P. Landow, Hans Arp, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Johannes Baargeld, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Max Ernst occult, Nadia Choucha, Paul Eluard, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, Robert Desnos, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, W.B. Yeats, Werner Spies
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PARALLEL STRESS OF CONCEPTUAL ART
The earliest conceptual artists to get wide public attention were the Earth Artists, including Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, and Walter De Maria, who in October, 1968, exhibited mainly photographic documentation of their works in a group show called … Continue reading
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