Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer's Recompense, 1913
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Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street,
1914
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Dada (1914-20S) (absorbed by Surrealism in the mid-20s)
irrationality, anarchy, cynicism and the rejection of laws of
beauty and social organization anti-art that would destroy culture
and therefore war Hugo Ball reciting sound poems in the Cabaret
Voltaire, 1916
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Tristan Tzara
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(The signatories of this manifesto live in France, America,
Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, etc. but have no
nationality.) DADA EXCITES EVERYTHING DADA knows everything. DADA
spits everything out. BUT......... HAS DADA EVER SPOKEN TO YOU:
about Italy about accordions about women's pants about the
fatherland about sardines about Fiume about Art (you exaggerate my
friend) about gentleness about D'Annunzio what a horror about
heroism about mustaches about lewdness about sleeping with Verlaine
about the ideal (it's nice) about Massachusetts about the past
about odors about salads about genius, about genius, about genius
about the eight-hour day about the Parma violets NEVER NEVER NEVER
DADA doesn't speak. DADA has no fixed idea. DADA doesn't catch
flies. THE MINISTRY IS OVERTURNED. BY WHOM? BY DADA Paris January
12, 1921 E. Varse, Tr. Tzara, Ph. Soupault, Soubeyran, J. Rigaut,
G. Ribe- mont-Dessaignes, M. Ray, F. Pi- cabia, B. Pret, C.
Pausaers R.Hlsenbeeks, J. Evola, M. Ernst, P. Eluard, Suz. Duchamp,
M. Du- champ, Crotti, G. Cantarelli, Marg. Buffet, Gab. Buffet, a.
Breton Baargeld, Arp., W. C. Arensberg, L. Aragon For all
information write "AU SANS PAREIL" 37, Avenue Klber. Tel. PASSY
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The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADA A Young girl commits
suicide. Because of What? DADA The spirits are telephoned. Who
invented it? DADA Someone walks on your feet. It's DADA If you have
serious ideas about life, If you make artistic discoveries and if
all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter, If you
find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that IT IS DADA
BEGINNING TO SPEAK TO YOU cubism constructs a cathedral of artistic
liver paste WHAT DOES DADA DO? expressionism poisons artistic
sardines WHAT DOES DADA DO? simultaneism is still at its first
artistic communion WHAT DOES DADA DO? futurism wants to mount in an
artistic lyricism-elevator WHAT DOES DADA DO? unanism embraces
allism and fishes with an artistic line WHAT DOES DADA DO?
neo-classicism discovers the good deeds of artistic art WHAT DOES
DADA DO? paroxysm makes a trust of all artistic cheeses WHAT DOES
DADA DO? ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven artistic
things WHAT DOES DADA DO? creationism vorticism imagism also
propose some artistic recipes WHAT DOES DADA DO? 50 francs reward
to the person who finds the best way to explain DADA to us Dada
passes everything through a new net. Dada is the bitterness which
opens its laugh on all that which has been made consecrated
forgotten in our language in our brain in our habits. It says to
you: There is Humanity and the lovely idiocies which have made it
happy to this advanced age DADA HAS ALWAYS EXISTED THE HOLY VIRGIN
WAS ALREADY A DADAIST DADA IS NEVER RIGHT Citizens, comrades,
ladies, gentlemen Beware of forgeries! Imitators of DADA want to
present DADA in an artistic form which it has never had CITIZENS,
You are presented today in a pornographic form, a vulgar and
baroque spirit which is not the PURE IDIOCY claimed by DADA BUT
DOGMATISM AND PRETENTIOUS IMBECILITY
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Dada (1914-20S) and Surrealism Andre Breton, 1924 Surrealism
(is) pure psychic automatism . Thought in the absence of all
control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral
preoccupations based on the belief in the superior reality of
certain forms of associations heretofore neglected, in the
omnipotence of the dream and the disinterested play of thought.
Surreality (is) the reconciliation of the reality of dreams with
the reality of everyday life into a higher Synthesis. Expressions
of the Unconscious: Chance Play Automatisms (Freud, Jokes and their
Relation to the Unconscious, 1911)
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Hans (Jean) Arp Zurich Dada Collage arranged according to the
laws of chance 1916-1917, torn and pasted paper, 19 x 13 Automatic
Drawing 1917-18 Ink and pencil on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 1/4"
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Arp, Collage made according to the rules of Chance, 1916
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Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) 1924 Gelatin silver print
11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in. Indestructible Object (or Object to be
Destroyed) 1923 (replica of 1964) Metronome with cutout photograph
of eye on pendulum wood, metal, paint and photograph 8 x 4 x 4 Man
Ray
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Picabia, Portrait of Cezanne, 1920
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FP St. Vierge 15
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Picabia, Girl Born without a Mother, 1918
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Francis Picabia - Here, This is Stieglitz/ Faith and Love,
1915
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Marcel Duchamp The Fountain 1917 ready-made, porcelain plumbing
fixture and enamel paint, 24 h.