Tristan Tzara—poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst—was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic—which often uses dadaist typography—as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.
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"Tristan Tzara was like me, like Socrates, like Chateaubriand, a very small, fat, and very ugly man, but with incredible charm!" —Fernando Arrabal, author, Guernica and Other Plays
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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not an academical book if that's what you're looking for,
This review is from: Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358) (Paperback)
you won't find an explanation of what dada is, simply because it cannot be explained. dada is the anarchism in a french female-boxer soul. is an excellent literary book. not a college research book.
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This review is from: Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358) (Paperback)
As can be seen by some of the reviews, this goes waaaaaay over some peoples heads. For others, it changes lives. I am of the latter category, and i will never be the same after having read this book.
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This book does not define Dada. It is Dada.,
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This review is from: Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358) (Paperback)
All manifestos are the biographies of feeble and bitter love. Dada is, therefore, an impotent rapist. Still, Tzara is a charming and likable fellow.If you want to know what Dada is, then Dada wants nothing to do with you. Approach this book at your own peril. Dada is against death. Definition is death. This book does not commit murder. Therefore it does not define Dada. It is Dada....
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