"Dada doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is dada, too. Beware of dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease. Self-kleptomania, man's normal condition, is dada. But the real dadaists are against dada." - Tristan Tzara.
What is dada? Dada is about openess to anything and all of nothing. you can stay on the straight path or you can take the road left traveled.- Jonathan Dahlhuser Dada reimagined what art could and should be in anage reeling from the world’s first industrial-sized slaughter and the onslaught of modern mass media that it triggered, which included war propaganda posters, films, and the photo-illustrated press [fig. 2].
Dada is a commentary on what is art and what makes art, well art. Dada aims to blur the lines and generate true thinking outside the box. An example: When does the urinal become a fountain?
Hey Everyone...please remember that you should be writing quotes from your readings, so always write who said it & where you found it when you can. Here's another one: "Dada speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in sapce & not in time." --Picabia
In "Dada Lives," 1936, Huelsenbeck's most detailed description of the discovery of "Dada", he wrote that they needed a slogan to affirm solidarity and as the title for a proposed publication. He said he was with Hugo Ball. Ball was reading through a German-French dictionary. "Dada", Ball read, and added: "It's a children's word meaning hobby-horse." "Let's take the word dada", I said. "It's just made for our purpose. The child's first sound expresses the primitiveness, the beginning at zero, the new in our art. We could not find a better word." -Richard Huelsenbeck
"Archipenko, whom we honoured as an unequalled model in the field of plastic art, maintained that art must be neither realistic nor idealistic, it must be true. and by this he meant above all that any imitation of nature, however concealed, is a lie. In this sense, Dada was to give the truth a new impetus. Dada was to be a rallying point for abstract energies and a lasting slinshot for the great international artistic movements." - Richard Huelsenbeck, En Avant Dada
"Dada was a way to get out of a state of mind, to get away from cliches - to get free." -Marcel Duchamp, The Influence of Modern Art; PowerPoint; (http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/AlexzJudeH-328373-dada-education-ppt-powerpoint/)
"Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family is Dada; a protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action: Dada! Knowledge of all the means rejected up until now by the shamefaced sex of comfortable compromise and good manners: Dada! Abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada! Of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada! Every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada! Abolition of memory: Dada! Abolition of archaeology: Dada! Abolition of prophets: Dada! Abolition of the future: Dada! Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity: Dada! Elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere; trajectory of a word tossed like a screeching phonograph record; to respect all individuals in their folly of the moment: whether it be serious, fearful, timid, ardent, vigorous, determined, enthusiastic; to divest one's church of every useless cumbersome accessory; to spit out disagreeable or amorous ideas like a luminous waterfall, or coddle them - with the extreme satisfaction that it doesn't matter in the least - with the same intensity in the thicket of one's soul - pure of insects for blood well-born, and gilded with bodies of archangels. Freedom: Dada! Dada! Dada! A roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE." - Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto" - 1918 (Random Acts of Beauty - The Story of Dada - video, Bryon Caplan)
Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions. … I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation. -Richard Huelsenbeck
Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. —Marc Lowenthal, translator's introduction to Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation (wikipedia)
Dada is "an artistic revolt against art" "a storm the broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations. It came without warning, out of a heavy brooding sky and left behind it a new day..." "the unification of opposites which became an artistic reality" --Hans Richter. dada art and anti-art.
"Dada is senseless like nature" - Hans Arp Arp was talking about Dada smashing the "logical nonsense" found throughout society. The current/"modern" theories involving art and the human experience would be brought down by a kind of "illogical senselessness" relating more to nature and less to the inner workings of the mind(Dickerman, 38).
Huelsenbeck: "dada is an international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical communism" Motherwell - p. 41
"Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions." -Tristan Tzara Motherwell p. 250-251
"Dada was a collective struggle... for individual rights... It was not interested in providing moral justification for political activism, or, for that matter, for any particular system. The Dadaist know that moral struggle is individual; man must arrive at his own decisions, his own values" - Ball Leah Dickerman reading page 25
"dada-its ability to hypnotize, by guiding the vulgar mind to ideas and things which none of the originators had thought of..." -Huelsenbeck Dickerman 1
"Dada sought to jolt men out of their wretched consciousness. Dada detested resignation." Dada was envisioned as a shock tactic, analogous to the electric shock therapy used to treat shell shock, breaking through the protective mental buffer to consciousness. -Hans Arp Dickerman 26
Dada is here, there, and a little everywhere, such as it is, with its faults, with its personal differences-which it accepts and views with indifference.-Tristan Tzara, Dadaism
Dada means nothing. We want to change the world with nothing. Huelsenbeck
"What we call Dada is a harlequinade made of nothingness in which all higher questions are involved, a gladiator's gesture, a play with shabby debris, an execution of postured morality and plenitude."- Hugo Ball Motherwell p. 51
We are very well aware that, beyond and above it, the individual imagination retains it total liberty- and that this, even more than the movement itself, is Dada. Breton defense for Dada (Dada art and anti-art)
"We want to provoke, perturb, bewilder, tease, tickle to death, confuse..." Ball and Hennings wrote this in a manifesto given out in their "anitwar evenings," serving as a precedent for the Cabaret Voltaire.
"Dada was a collective struggle...for individual rights...It was not interested in providing moral justification for political activism, or, for that matter, for any particular system. The Dadaist know that moral struggle is individual; man must arrive at this own decisions, his own values." Huelsenbeck, Dickerman pg. 25
I read the introduction to the Hans Richter book for class (Dada: art & anti-art) and this phrase caught my attention: "Dada was not an artistic movement in the accepted sense; it was a storm that broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations" (Richter 9). It shows how the current events of the time directly effected the world and the strength it truly had. Also, I found this quote and loved it instantaneously, "Art is either plagiarism or revolution." — Marcel Duchamp http://moneyistheway.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-is-either-plagiarism-or-revolution.html
"[Dada] is a rethinking driven in large part by historical and ethical imperatives," (Dickerman 2).
"Dadaism was born of this crisis of disillusionment," (Dickerman 6).
"Grosz spoke of Dada as a response to 'the cloud wandering-tendencies of so-called sacred art which found meaning in cubes and the gothic, while the field commanders painted in blood,'" (Dickerman 7).
"Given the impossibility to return to such a mode of art making, the implicit question the dadaists posed for themselves was how to reimagine artistic practice in the age of media and technological warfare," (Dickerman 7).
"A first premise clear to all was that art must not look away..." (Dickerman 7).
"Dada... can be understood as a refusal to 'stay at a distance,' a refusal of both transcendence and sublimation," (Dickerman 7).
"Yet this abandonment of not only picture making, but object making, reflects a sea change in the conceptualization of art without which certain common contemporary modes of practice are inconceivable," (Dickerman 9).
"Dada was not a school of artists, but an alarm signal against declining values, routine and speculation, a desperate appeal, on behalf of all forms of art, for a creative basis on which to build a new and universal consciousness of art." (Richter 49).
"Dada is 'yes, yes' in Rumanian, 'rocking horse' and 'hobbyhorse' in French. For Germans it is a sign of foolish naivete, joy in procreation, and preoccupation with the baby carriage." Ball, Dickerman 33.
"Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. Dada wanted to replace the logical nonsense of the men of today by the illogically senseless...Dada is for the senseless, which does not mean nonsense. Dada is senseless like nature. Dada is for nature and against art." - Hans Arp, (Dickerman, 38).
Dada is still full of contradictions. dada invited or rather defied , the world to misunderstand it, and fostered every kind of confusion. -hans richter i believe that the confusion of dada is also the beauty of its creation and its very intruiging
"Dada was not a myth but an entirely real event which affected us seriously every day of our lives. In order to appreciate how serious and how real Dada was, it will be necessary to go back to the rules which make possible a measure of historical accuracy." -Hans Richter (dada - art and anti-art pg.10)
"Today, more than fifty years later, the image of Dada is still full of contradictions. This is not surprising. Dada invited, or rather defied, the world to misunderstand it, and fostered every kind of confusion. This as done from caprice and from a principle of contradiction." -Hans Richter (dada - art and anti-art pg. 9)
"Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art."
"Dada displayed a raucous skepticism about accepted values" Dickerman pg. IX
"... Dada is not well understood." Dickerman pg. 1
"Clearly Dad is not defined by a consistent style, though the concept of style is still relevant, if waning, when we speak of Dada's predecessors (and its most important influences as well as its bailiwicks): cubism, futurism, and expressionism." Dickerman pg. 7
“Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.” Tristan Tzara (Found whilst stumbling through the Internet)
What is dada? Dada is about openess to anything and all of nothing. you can stay on the straight path or you can take the road left traveled.- Jonathan Dahlhuser
ReplyDeleteDada reimagined what art could and should be in anage reeling from the world’s first industrial-sized slaughter and the onslaught of modern mass media that it triggered,
which included war propaganda posters, films, and the photo-illustrated press [fig. 2].
dada is a network, a web of connections linking actors and local groupings, serving as a conduit of ideas and images.
ReplyDeleteDada is a commentary on what is art and what makes art, well art. Dada aims to blur the lines and generate true thinking outside the box. An example: When does the urinal become a fountain?
ReplyDeleteHey Everyone...please remember that you should be writing quotes from your readings, so always write who said it & where you found it when you can. Here's another one:
ReplyDelete"Dada speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in sapce & not in time." --Picabia
In "Dada Lives," 1936, Huelsenbeck's most detailed description of the discovery of "Dada", he wrote that they needed a slogan to affirm solidarity and as the title for a proposed publication. He said he was with Hugo Ball. Ball was reading through a German-French dictionary. "Dada", Ball read, and added: "It's a children's word meaning hobby-horse." "Let's take the word dada", I said. "It's just made for our purpose. The child's first sound expresses the primitiveness, the beginning at zero, the new in our art. We could not find a better word." -Richard Huelsenbeck
ReplyDelete"Archipenko, whom we honoured as an unequalled model in the field of plastic art, maintained that art must be neither realistic nor idealistic, it must be true. and by this he meant above all that any imitation of nature, however concealed, is a lie. In this sense, Dada was to give the truth a new impetus. Dada was to be a rallying point for abstract energies and a lasting slinshot for the great international artistic movements." - Richard Huelsenbeck, En Avant Dada
ReplyDelete"Dada was a way to get out of a state of mind, to get away from cliches - to get free." -Marcel Duchamp, The Influence of Modern Art; PowerPoint;
ReplyDelete(http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/AlexzJudeH-328373-dada-education-ppt-powerpoint/)
"Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family is Dada; a protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action: Dada! Knowledge of all the means rejected up until now by the shamefaced sex of comfortable compromise and good manners: Dada! Abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada! Of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada! Every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada! Abolition of memory: Dada! Abolition of archaeology: Dada! Abolition of prophets: Dada! Abolition of the future: Dada! Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity: Dada! Elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere; trajectory of a word tossed like a screeching phonograph record; to respect all individuals in their folly of the moment: whether it be serious, fearful, timid, ardent, vigorous, determined, enthusiastic; to divest one's church of every useless cumbersome accessory; to spit out disagreeable or amorous ideas like a luminous waterfall, or coddle them - with the extreme satisfaction that it doesn't matter in the least - with the same intensity in the thicket of one's soul - pure of insects for blood well-born, and gilded with bodies of archangels. Freedom: Dada! Dada! Dada! A roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE."
- Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto" - 1918 (Random Acts of Beauty - The Story of Dada - video, Bryon Caplan)
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ReplyDeleteDada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions. … I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation. -Richard Huelsenbeck
ReplyDeleteDada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting
ReplyDeletepoint for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on
pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for
anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the
foundation for Surrealism.
—Marc Lowenthal, translator's introduction to Francis Picabia's I Am a
Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation
(wikipedia)
Dada is "an artistic revolt against art"
ReplyDelete"a storm the broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations. It came without warning, out of a heavy brooding sky and left behind it a new day..."
"the unification of opposites which became an artistic reality"
--Hans Richter. dada art and anti-art.
"Dada is senseless like nature" - Hans Arp
ReplyDeleteArp was talking about Dada smashing the "logical nonsense" found throughout society. The current/"modern" theories involving art and the human experience would be brought down by a kind of "illogical senselessness" relating more to nature and less to the inner workings of the mind(Dickerman, 38).
dada is an international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical communism
ReplyDeleteHuelsenbeck:
ReplyDelete"dada is an international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical communism"
Motherwell - p. 41
"Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions." -Tristan Tzara
ReplyDeleteMotherwell p. 250-251
"Dada was a collective struggle... for individual rights... It was not interested in providing moral justification for political activism, or, for that matter, for any particular system. The Dadaist know that moral struggle is individual; man must arrive at his own decisions, his own values" - Ball
ReplyDeleteLeah Dickerman reading page 25
"dada-its ability to hypnotize, by guiding the vulgar mind to ideas and things which none of the originators had thought of..." -Huelsenbeck
ReplyDeleteDickerman 1
"Dada sought to jolt men out of their wretched consciousness. Dada detested resignation." Dada was envisioned as a shock tactic, analogous to the electric shock therapy used to treat shell shock, breaking through the protective mental buffer to consciousness. -Hans Arp
ReplyDeleteDickerman 26
Dada is here, there, and a little everywhere, such as it is, with its faults, with its personal differences-which it accepts and views with indifference.-Tristan Tzara, Dadaism
ReplyDeleteDada means nothing. We want to change the world with nothing. Huelsenbeck
"What we call Dada is a harlequinade made of nothingness in which all higher questions are involved, a gladiator's gesture, a play with shabby debris, an execution of postured morality and plenitude."- Hugo Ball
ReplyDeleteMotherwell p. 51
We are very well aware that, beyond and above it, the individual imagination retains it total liberty- and that this, even more than the movement itself, is Dada.
ReplyDeleteBreton defense for Dada (Dada art and anti-art)
"We want to provoke, perturb, bewilder, tease, tickle to death, confuse..." Ball and Hennings wrote this in a manifesto given out in their "anitwar evenings," serving as a precedent for the Cabaret Voltaire.
ReplyDelete"Dada was a collective struggle...for individual rights...It was not interested in providing moral justification for political activism, or, for that matter, for any particular system. The Dadaist know that moral struggle is individual; man must arrive at this own decisions, his own values." Huelsenbeck, Dickerman pg. 25
ReplyDeleteI read the introduction to the Hans Richter book for class (Dada: art & anti-art) and this phrase caught my attention:
ReplyDelete"Dada was not an artistic movement in the accepted sense; it was a storm that broke over the world of art as the war did over the nations" (Richter 9).
It shows how the current events of the time directly effected the world and the strength it truly had.
Also, I found this quote and loved it instantaneously, "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
— Marcel Duchamp
http://moneyistheway.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-is-either-plagiarism-or-revolution.html
"[Dada] is a rethinking driven in large part by historical and ethical imperatives," (Dickerman 2).
ReplyDelete"Dadaism was born of this crisis of disillusionment," (Dickerman 6).
"Grosz spoke of Dada as a response to 'the cloud wandering-tendencies of so-called sacred art which found meaning in cubes and the gothic, while the field commanders painted in blood,'" (Dickerman 7).
"Given the impossibility to return to such a mode of art making, the implicit question the dadaists posed for themselves was how to reimagine artistic practice in the age of media and technological warfare," (Dickerman 7).
"A first premise clear to all was that art must not look away..." (Dickerman 7).
"Dada... can be understood as a refusal to 'stay at a distance,' a refusal of both transcendence and sublimation," (Dickerman 7).
"Yet this abandonment of not only picture making, but object making, reflects a sea change in the conceptualization of art without which certain common contemporary modes of practice are inconceivable," (Dickerman 9).
"Dada was not a school of artists, but an alarm signal against declining values, routine and speculation, a desperate appeal, on behalf of all forms of art, for a creative basis on which to build a new and universal consciousness of art." (Richter 49).
ReplyDelete"Dada is 'yes, yes' in Rumanian, 'rocking horse' and 'hobbyhorse' in French. For Germans it is a sign of foolish naivete, joy in procreation, and preoccupation with the baby carriage." Ball, Dickerman 33.
ReplyDelete"Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. Dada wanted to replace the logical nonsense of the men of today by the illogically senseless...Dada is for the senseless, which does not mean nonsense. Dada is senseless like nature. Dada is for nature and against art."
ReplyDelete- Hans Arp, (Dickerman, 38).
Dada is still full of contradictions. dada invited or rather defied , the world to misunderstand it, and fostered every kind of confusion. -hans richter i believe that the confusion of dada is also the beauty of its creation and its very intruiging
ReplyDelete"Dada was not a myth but an entirely real event which affected us seriously every day of our lives. In order to appreciate how serious and how real Dada was, it will be necessary to go back to the rules which make possible a measure of historical accuracy." -Hans Richter (dada - art and anti-art pg.10)
ReplyDelete"Today, more than fifty years later, the image of Dada is still full of contradictions. This is not surprising. Dada invited, or rather defied, the world to misunderstand it, and fostered every kind of confusion. This as done from caprice and from a principle of contradiction." -Hans Richter (dada - art and anti-art pg. 9)
"Dada is the world's best lily milk soap." -Dickerman pg.33
ReplyDelete"Dada [is] a committed battle against dogma in artistic practice"
ReplyDelete-Dickerman P.41
I found this really great interactive website about Marcel Duchamp:
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"Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art."
ReplyDelete-http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/dadaism.htm
"Dada displayed a raucous skepticism about accepted values" Dickerman pg. IX
ReplyDelete"... Dada is not well understood." Dickerman pg. 1
"Clearly Dad is not defined by a consistent style, though the concept of style is still relevant, if waning, when we speak of Dada's predecessors (and its most important influences as well as its bailiwicks): cubism, futurism, and expressionism." Dickerman pg. 7
-Armadillo :)
"Dada is the ground from which all art springs." Hans Richter, Dada art and anti-art pg. 37
ReplyDelete“Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.” Tristan Tzara (Found whilst stumbling through the Internet)
ReplyDeleteQu'est-ce que Dada?
ReplyDelete"If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada offends."
"The basis of Dada is nonsense."
- huntfor.com
"stumble dada." - ma'am, you make me wanna dance
ReplyDelete"Before Dada was there, there was Dada."
ReplyDelete- Hans Arp, 1919
"The normal state of man is Dada."
- First International Dada Fair poster, 1919
"Like everything in Life, Dada is useless."
- Tristan Tzara, 1922
[ http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/slogans/index.shtm#null ]
This is DADA with a modern day twist.
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