The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 61
... Dada was never an art style , as Cubism was ; nor did it begin with a pugnacious socio - political programme , like Futurism . It stood for a wholly eclectic freedom to experiment ; it enshrined play as the highest human activity , and ...
... Dada was never an art style , as Cubism was ; nor did it begin with a pugnacious socio - political programme , like Futurism . It stood for a wholly eclectic freedom to experiment ; it enshrined play as the highest human activity , and ...
Page 63
... Dada - mensch , the lightfoot Messiah to come ) , the Zurich Dadaists were to Marinetti as Marinetti had been to Nietzsche . If Marinetti's version of Zarathustra was the Machine , Dada's was the Child . Machinery , after all , had ...
... Dada - mensch , the lightfoot Messiah to come ) , the Zurich Dadaists were to Marinetti as Marinetti had been to Nietzsche . If Marinetti's version of Zarathustra was the Machine , Dada's was the Child . Machinery , after all , had ...
Page 71
... DADA !!! gathered together to put forward a new art . What , then , is Dadaism ? The word “ Dada ” signifies the most primitive relation to the reality of the environment . . . . Life appears as a simultaneous muddle of noises , colours ...
... DADA !!! gathered together to put forward a new art . What , then , is Dadaism ? The word “ Dada ” signifies the most primitive relation to the reality of the environment . . . . Life appears as a simultaneous muddle of noises , colours ...
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