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Dada Art
02.01.2011
Alexander Partens was a pseudonym for Tzara, Serner and Arp, the so-called Limited Company for the Exploitation of Dadaist Vocabulary. This essay was originally intended for Dadaco and was sent for inclusion by Tzara with this message: "Picabia and Arp attach the utmost importance to A. Partens' essay Dada Art being published in full, otherwise their pictorial contributions will not be understood."
Expressionism is just poster art and did not need to be made the servant of business in order to lose its expressiveness once and for all.All art, even purely imitative forms, already contains elements of abstraction; either in its proportions or colour, or in the choice of materials, for all imitative work consists in transposing external relationships into a complex unity which is by its nature different. Hence photography is the form of abstractions with the smallest degree of...
Miloslav Topinka: The Dada movement in relation to the Czech inter-war avant-garde
02.01.2011
"I regard art as a means of expression," says Marcel Duchamp, "and not a goal. One means of expression amongst so many others."
Gerald Janecek: Dada in Central and Eastern Europe
02.01.2011
In Eastern Europe the individual national agendas for avant-garde activities were often quite different from those in Western Europe. Primary among these differences was the issue of independent national identity, brought to the fore by the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Austro-Hungarian...
Ladislav Klíma: The Journey of the Blind Snake in Search of Truth
02.01.2011
The Journey of the Blind Snake in Search of Truth is the introductory, somewhat abridged chapter of Der Gang der blinden Schlange zur Wahrheit, a German novel worked on jointly by Ladislav Klíma and his friend Franz Böhler during 1917-18. Only the first part of the novel was completed and its text...
Jindřich Toman: Now you see it, now you don’t
02.01.2011
Dada in Czechoslovakia, with notes on high and low
Featuring Czech Dada
02.01.2011
Narrating the history of Czech Dada is a slippery undertaking. There are the facts: Hausmann and Huelsenbeck toured the country in 1920, performing Dada in Teplice, Prague and Karlovy Vary to great confusion and acclaim; in 1921 Hausmann returned, this time with Kurt Schwitters in tow, and the two...
Ludvík Kundera: Of Tea and Dada
10.12.2007
And the poets? What do the poets perform For the weeping world? (Jaroslav Seifert, 'Raindrops')
