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confusion as intent
Dada. They brought to a sharp focus the dilemma in which making choices between so-called alternatives was a lost cause. Tristan Tzara ( of chess with Lenin fame ) saw opposites as essentially equivalent. Order=disroder. affirmation=negation. The efforts to incite … Continue reading
fantastic realism
She represented the opposite of the one dimensional society that was being constructed around her. Contrary to the nazi idea of purity, the well-managed in-bred society in the quest for the authentic human being and with the help of eugenics, … Continue reading
cabaret voltaire: an arcade project
Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, cubism and dada, Donald Kuspit, emily hennings, Ernst Bloch, Francis Picabia, futurism and dada, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hans Richter, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, miles w. mathis, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, situationism, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin dada
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ART AS HELL IN A HAND-CART: The New Objectivity?
“The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” …”All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.” (Walter Benjamin )…”A work of art carries its defence within itself.” ( Jean Cocteau). Entartete Kunst … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Cesar Klein, Erich Nolde, Georg Swarzenski, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, Helen Webberley, J.K. Harrell, Jankel Adler, Jean Cocteau, Johannes Itten, John Zorn, Julie Gladstone, Kathe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Steven Lehrer, Walter Benjamin
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Aesthetics of Nihilism: Death as a ''Ready Made''
The general chaos was captured in the driving art movement in Germany in the years between the World Wars by German Expressionism. But once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party began their ascent into power, culminating in 1933 with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Dadaists, Edmund Husserl, Eugene Davidson, George Grosz, German Expressionism, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Heidegger, John Heartfield, Julius Streicher, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Michael Zimmerman, Raoul Hausmann, Salvador dali, Sigmeund Freud, Wagner
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