Ok, if we don't want to play nice...
One cannot consider the work of the Dadaists without considering the
evolution of the artistic gesture. So you're telling me that the non-scence
plays and books written by the many, many followers of the movement meant
nothing in comparison to the insanity they had been forced to live in the
war years? Could one think of the Merzbau and not realize the statements
and gestures built into the day to day realities of the environment? Could
one not see the defiant gestures involved in presenting redymades and
collages (in comparison to the academy and all it represented at the time)?
That the words and acts themselves are obstruse does not mean that they are
indeed meaningless.
" DADA is art with neither slippers nor parallels; it is against and for
unity and is decidedly against the future."
Tristan Tzara
Sounds like a statement to me...
Donna S
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quoted 19 lines Above all else, the Dada Movement was a nihilistic one - denying meaning.
>Above all else, the Dada Movement was a nihilistic one - denying meaning.
>That is the antithesis of making a statement.
>
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>Andrei wrote:
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> > In a way. I think everything in Dada was a "statement" more so than in
> > lots of other art movements. Dada art was about more than just the art
> > itself. It wasn't just meaningless art done for "art's sake" (that
> > statement is one of my pet peeves, because there's really no such
>thing).
> > Dada was very much a response to the absurdism of WWI and it was a sneer
> > and a slap in the face of convention.
>
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