By the spring of 1916 nearly three million men have died in the fighting
 
During the Battle of the Somme twenty-five thousand are killed in one day
honor Petrit ISM family art religion morality
All these notions had once answered human needs
now nothing remained of them, but skeletons
The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but have discussed
in a French military hospital a young medical student Andre Breton is
conducting experiments in greem analysis on his shell-shocked patients
Brittle meets one soldier who insists that the war is a sham
But the bullets are only dummies
The wounds are merely makeup and the dead are taken from hospitals and distributed at night across the phony battlefield
That available
Via di da da
Havin this Obama to Platts in the world the bomba escape lads and Hatfield Rajkumar
De splitter Sindh American surveilled first art verse mahadji museum hurt
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acidic Wien portal
In the safety of neutral Zuri Hugo ball opens the Cabaret Voltaire a group of artists and writers invent the word
Dada to describe their activities Dada thrives on contradictions it is creative and destructive
Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it
hands up from Alsace makes wood cups and sculptures
Dad I wanted to replace the logical nonsense of man with the illogically senseless
Dada is senseless like nature Dada is for nature and against part
philosophies have less value for Dada than an old toothbrush and
Dada abandons them to the great leaders
Tristan Tzara from Romania writes Dada manifestos I
Write a manifesto, and I want nothing
Yet, I say certain things and in principle. I'm against manifestos as I'm also against principles
The principle love thy neighbor isn't hypocrisy
Know thyself is utopian, but more acceptable since it embraces wickedness
No pity
Even after this carnage we still retain the hope of a purified mankind I
Speak only for myself since I do not wish to convince. I have no right to drag others into my River
I'm against action for continuous contradiction for affirmation to aya neither for nor against
And I do not explain because I hate common sense
Some people think they can explain rationally by thought what they think, but that is extremely relative
psychoanalysis is a dangerous disease it puts to sleep the anti objective impulses of man and
systematizes the bourgeoisie
The dialectic is an amusing mechanism, which guides us in a banal kind of a way to the opinions we had in the first place
Marcel Yanko from Romania makes masks for the Cabaret
Yanko has made a number of masks for the new show which recall the ancient greek or japanese theater, and yet they are totally modern
What fascinates us all is that they represents not human characters?
But passions that are larger than life the horror of our time is made visible
Out of cardboard paper
horsehair and wire he created lesbian sardines
languorous fetuses
ecstatic mice
In an effort to escape the monstrous aggot ISM of the artists hands are proclaims the lure of chance
What arrogance is concealed in perfection?
Why struggle for purity in position when they can never be attained?
the law of chance which embraces all other laws and is as
Unfathomable as the depth from which all life arises can only be comprehended by a complete surrender to the unconscious
I'm in pain that whoever submits to this law attains Pure Life
Tristan tzara discovers the formula for dada poetry to make a data is poem take a newspaper take a pair of scissors
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem cut out the article
Then cut out it to the words that make up the article and place in a bag
Shake gently
Then take out each of the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag
copy conscientiously
The poem will be like you and here you are a writer
Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar
19:18 the painter Francis Picabia arrives in Zurich
He is rich articulate nihilistic to meet Picabia was like an experience of meeting death
The cobia travels around the world producing copies of his magazine 3 9 1
Every page must explode whether through seriousness profundity in nausea
Annihilating nonsense all the way it is printed art must be unaesthetic in the extreme useless and impossible to justify
There are 391 presidents of the Dada movement anyone who wishes to become a president of the Dada movement can be one
Picabo's magazines and mechanical paintings connect the zurich dada s with a most hermetic and radical of all the aunty art artists
Marcel Duchamp
Born into a prosperous bourgeois family in Normandy by the age of 25
Do Chanel's painting has evolved through a rapid succession of styles?
Then he reacts violently against painting as a source of pleasure
I
Wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind to establish myself as far as possible
against pleasing or attractive paintings
1912
Duchamp paints nude descending a staircase an analysis of a moving figure influenced by photographic research in one of Mario's books I
Saw an illustration of how he delineate the different movements of people who fence or horses galloping there was no flesh
Only a simplified Anatomy up and down they had the arms and legs
1913 Duchamp paints a chocolate grinding machine it was there that I began to think I could avoid all contact with traditional pictorial
Painting which is found even in my own nude descending a staircase
Taste is a habit the repetition of something already accepted
Good or bad it still tastes
But mechanical drawing up holds no taste since it lies outside all pictorial conventions
Duchamp continues his struggle against the tyranny of taste by mounting a bicycle wheel onto a stool
Next he selects a bottle rack from a parish shop
He calls these objects ready-made works of art to choose a ready-made
I had to beware of its look because after two weeks you begin to like it or hate it
You have to approach the object as if you had no aesthetic emotion the choice of ready-mades is always based on visual indifference
19:15 Ducie arrives in New York
He signs a urinal with the name our mutt
Entitles it fountain and enters it in the Society of independent artists exhibition
This work is suppressed by the society and a protest about the incident appears in a new york dada magazine
What were the grounds for refusing mr. Mutts fountain some contended? He was a model vulgar others
It was plagerism a plain piece of plumbing now mr.
Mutts fountain is not a model that is absurd no more than a bathtub AZ model
Whether mr.. Mott with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it
he took an ordinary article of life and
Created a new thought for that object as for plumbing that is absurd
The only works of art America has given her her plumbing and her bridges
in New York Duchamp works on his large glass the bride stripped bare by her bachelors even
Painting and inscribing onto a glass panel a number of forms which appear to add up to a mechanistic
representation of sexuality
Do shells notes describe the function of each element in the glass right above
Bachelors below the bachelors serving is an architectonic base for the bride
This latter becomes a sort of apotheosis of virginity
But the place where this eroticism is revealed
Which should be one of the principal cogs of the bachelor machine this tormented gearing gives birth to the desire part of the Machine?
The bride at her base is a reservoir of love gasoline
Ottoman power
this timid power
Distributed to the motor with quite feeble cylinders in contact with the sparks of her constant life
Explodes and makes this virgin blossom who was attained her desire?
The chocolate of the rollers coming from one knows not where would deposit itself after grinding as milk chocolate
The Bachelor grinds his chocolate himself
After eight years of work on the large glass to show abandoned the project declaring his work is definitively incomplete
1918
Germany is disintegrating in the wake of famine military chaos and the collapse of the kaisers government
Richard Hudson Bek brings data from Zurich to Berlin in Berlin Dada is primarily political and collective
 
The manifesto was a literary medium answered our need for directness we had no time to lose
We wanted to incite our opponents, and if necessary to create new opponents for ourselves
 
We hated nothing so much as romantic silence in the search for a soul the soul can only reveal itself through direct action
 
The Dadaist central Revolutionary Council demands one
the International Revolution reunion of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical communism
to the introduction of progressive unemployment through the comprehensive
mechanization of every field of activity
three
the immediate expropriation of property and the communal feeding of all
The erection of cities of light and Gardens which will belong to society as a whole and prepare man for a state of freedom
We further demand
Daily meals at public expense for all creative and intellectual men and women on the potsdamer platz
Compulsory attendance of all clergymen and teachers to the Dadaist articles of faith
the most brutal struggle against the concealed bourgeois tendencies of Expressionism
Introduction of the simultaneous poem as a communist state prayer
George gross draws portraits of Berlin society
Members of the club Dada include John Hartfield George gross Hannah hawk and
raoul hausmann who developed the technique of photo montage
The field of photo montage has as many possibilities as there are changes in the environment
Photo montage creates from totally disparate elements a new unity which reveals a conceptually new image of the chaos of an age of war and
revolution
Raoul hausmann develops his phonetic poems when language becomes petrified in the Academy's
Ravaged and made barren by journalism. It's true spirit takes refuge amongst children and mad
ladies and gentlemen
From
1920 Dada in Berlin reaches its climax were the first international Dada affair
From the ceiling hangs the effigy of a German officer with a pig's head and a placard around his neck proclaiming hanged by the revolution
The answer to the question whether or not our work can be called art
depends on whether or not the future belongs to the working class a
Man introduces himself to the Berlin Dada group with the words, I'm a painter, and I nail my pictures together
He applies for membership of the club Dada, but is vetoed on account of his bourgeois face his name is caught schwitters
rejected by the Dardis
He returns to Hanover cuts up an advertisement and creates the word Metz which he uses to describe his paintings and poetry
Metz stands for freedom from all fetters for the sake of artistic creation
Maths is as tolerant as possible towards its materials
I saw no reason that old tickets pieces of driftwood wire wheels
Buttons rubbish from attics should not be used for paintings on an equal footing with pigments manufactured in paint factories
To some extent this was a social point of view but above all it was the ultimate in logical consistency
In Cologne Max Ernst and Johannes boggled initiate the Dada conspiracy of the Rhineland
VAR gelt has just founded the Rhineland Communist Party and ence has just discovered the principle of collage I
Found myself taking an obsessive interest in the pages of an illustrated catalogue, which later hand I?
experienced a hallucinatory succession of double and triple images and what had been simply banaue pages of advertisements
Became so many dramas revealing my most secret desires
19:20 tristan tzara brings Dada from Zurich to Paris where he is awaited like a messiah
Using the rhetoric that
Is
innate in
eternity
Everything is genetic again it is
Merely pulusu the law sir eight to eight hours increase my buddy come
On Parvati. We are know the puny kddeitrick
Love a vote result up
In Paris do still paints a mustache on to the Mona Lisa
Andre Breton is editing the magazine literature, which becomes the mouthpiece for Dada in Paris Sarah and Breton write manifestos
Picabia designs magazines
Dada organises excursions and outrages
At the South gavel we created a great scandal
For the first time in the history of the world people threw at us
Not only eggs salads and pennies, but beef steaks as well. It was a great success the audience was extremely, Dada
Tonight's performance will include a ballet for three farad sardines and the reverie of the forsaken brontosaurus
Dodger is not a mystification. It is the entire human mystery we were right to be suspicious
Dada is clearly a facade for German infiltration
Dada a limited company for the exploitation of the vocabulary
Double your income with data only Dada is worth the investment of intellectual capital
The picturesque is the opposite of art, art is the opposite of life?
If you read and Rashidah out for 10 minutes your breath will stink
The first mechanical work of art was created by mrs.. Zahra the day when she brought little Christian into the world
If you wish to give her ideas clean you must change them regularly like her shirts
Dada has become as boring as the Academie Francaise in an effort to prolong its life Dada has become sealed up inside
itself
Trude artists are against, Dada
By 1922 the da dice are bringing out entire magazines devoted to insulting each other
Sarah and Gretel and Picabia quarrel violently Dada has destroyed itself
Francis Picabia writes the scenario for Rena Clare's film on fact
Tristan tzara delivers a funeral oration for da da da da marches on destroying more and more
From all these feelings of disgust it draws no conclusions no pride and no profit
It no longer even fights for it knows that this serves. No purpose and
Here we come to the great secret
Da da is a state of mind that is why it transforms itself according to all the events and nations it encounters
Da da applies itself to everything and yet it is nothing
Dada is the point at which yes, and no and all opposites meet
not noisily in the palaces of human philosophy
But quite simply at street corners like dogs and grasshoppers
Da da is useless like everything else in life
Dada has no pretensions. Just as life should have none
From the debris of da da Andre Breton begins to organize a more positive direction for the energy Dada has unleashed
Leave everything
Leave, Dada
Leave your wife
Leave your mistress
Leave your hopes and your fears
So your children in the corner of a would?
Leave the substance for the shadow
Set out on the road
Brittle system is searching for access to the unconscious under the pretence of civilization and progress
We have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed
superstition
Forbidden is any kind of search for truth that does not conform with accepted practices
It was apparently by pure chance
That part of our mental world
Which we pretended not to be concerned with in my opinion the most important part
Has been brought to light
for this we must give thanks to Sigmund Freud the
Imagination is perhaps on the point of reasserting itself of reclaiming its rights
Britain becomes the central figure of a group of writers and artists seeking a new balance between conscious and unconscious thought
He responds to the mystery implied by giorgio de chirico as paintings
De Kirikou writes
What will the aim of future paintings be to create previously unknown sensations?
to strip out of everything routine accepted
To see everything including man as the thing itself
But a work of art to be truly immortal. It must go beyond the limits of the human
common sense and logic will fail
In this manner it will approach the dream and mentality of childhood
I
Believe in the future resolution of these two states of dream and reality which appears have contradictory
in a kind of absolute reality
Sooo, reality one might call it
It would be an error to consider art as an end
The doctrine of art for art's sake seems senseless to me
We know that poetry must lead somewhere
Louis Aragon writes the Paris peasant describing the revelations that lurk beneath the surface of the city
Man no longer worships the gods on their Heights
Solomon's Temple has slid into a world of metaphor
But there are other places where men go calmly about their mysterious lives
Where a profound religion is gradually taking place? I?
Begin to discover the face of the infinite behind the concrete forms, which has caught me through this world
Reality is the apparent absence of contradictions
The marvelous is the eruption of contradictions within the real?
Love is a state of confusion
between the real and the marvelous
When the marvelous is dispossessed the abstract moves in
Surrealism
Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express either verbally or in writing the true function of thought
Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason
outside all moral or esthetic preoccupations
The first phase of surrealist art is intuitive Andre Masum develops the technique of automatic drawing I
Begin without an image or plan in mind, but paint or draw rapidly according to my impulses
Gradually in the marks. I make I see suggestions of figures or objects I encourage thee is to emerge
Trying to bring out their implications. Even as I now consciously try to give order to the composition
To adapt his automatic technique to painting muscle applies Sun directly to the canvas
Fixing his image with glue and paint
When Miro develops a system of intuitive signs within his paintings rather than setting out to paint something I
Begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself under my brush
the form becomes a sign a woman or a bird
For me a form is never something abstract it is always a sign for something
Max Ernst invents frottage creating images from the impressions of surfaces on August 10th
1925 I was struck by the obsession exerted upon my excited gaze by the floor
at random, I dropped pieces of paper and rubbed them with black LED I
Was surprised by the sudden intensification of my visionary faculties
By enlarging my minds hallucinatory powers I
succeeded in attending
Simply as a spectator at the birth of my own work
To advance their exploration of the unconscious the Surrealists open research office and issue their own visiting cards
Parents tell your dreams to your children
Surrealism is it the communism of genius you who cannot see think of those who care?
Antonin Artaud is appointed director of the research office art all rights addresses to the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists
We are your very faithful servants oh great Lama
Grant to us your wisdom in a language are contaminated European minds can understand
We are surrounded by roughneck Pope's
Scribblers critics dogs whose thoughts are earthbound who think incorrigibly in the present
teach us llama
Material levitation of the body and how we can be held no longer by the earth
Her back into the ocean those white men who arrived with their small heads and well-behaved minds
We suffer from a corruption the corruption of reason
Logical Europe endlessly crushes the mind between the jaws of two extremes. It opens and re closes the mind
We have suffered too long under the yoke
Like you we reject progress
Come and tear down our houses
19:28
salvador dali arrives in Paris aged 24
He denounces Suzanne as a very dirty painter and bases his own style on pure illusionism
the illusionism of the most abject
Lea a TV stand imitative art the usual paralyzing tricks of drone lorry the most
analytically narrative and discredited academics ISM can all become sublime
Hierarchies a thought and a path to a new precision of concrete irrationality
From his reading of Freud and Lacan Darley develops his paranoia critical method
Paranoia makes use of the external world to impose its obsessive notions with disturbing particularity
the external world serves as an illustration placed at the service of the minds reality I
believe that the moment is near when the procedure of active paranoid thought will make it possible to systematize confusion and
Contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality
Dali's arrival coincides with the second phase of Surrealism creating concrete models of irrationality
Eve Tommie paints imaginary landscapes
Myk's Ernst makes collages out of 19th century illustrations
Rene Magritte becomes a member of the Belgian surrealist group who carefully preserved their independence from bretons regime?
The art of painting which ought to be called the art of lightness amidst the description with paint of a thought capable of becoming palpable
This thought only comprises shapes presented to us by the world of appearance
There's nothing symbolic about it
Alberto Giacometti creates sculptures, which he calls objects designed to arouse unconscious desires
Everyone who saw his object experienced a strong, but indefinable
sexual emotion this emotion was not one of satisfaction, but of disturbance
Like that imparted by the irritating awareness of failure
Dushaan invents a new identity for himself as a woman I
wanted to change my personality I
Was a Catholic and the first idea that came to me was to take a Jewish name and change religion
Then I thought why not change sex it was much simpler
He renames himself air hose Silla v an ambiguous pun in French
In the poetry of Paul, Illawarra
And the photographs of Man Ray love is celebrated as the supreme surreal moment the ultimate fusion of the self were the other
She is standing on my eyelids and her hair is in mine
She has the shape of my hands. She has the color of my eyes
She is engulfed in my shadow like a stone against the sky
Her eyes are always open
She does not let me sleep
Her dreams in broad daylight make suns evaporate make me laugh weep and laugh and speak
without anything to say
Duchamp creates a few works within his new identity
but during the 1920s and 30s he appears to abandon art and seems to spend most of his time playing chess I
like living breathing better than working if
You wish my art would be that of living each second each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere
Which is not a cerebral nor visual. It's a sort of constant euphoria
Eve Tanguy captures spiders and eats them alive
Salvador Dali opens exhibitions dressed in a diving suit benjamin purvey insults priests passing in the street
The surrealist movement seems to be caught between the world of bourgeois art and the realm of irrational behavior
Andre Breton sees only one solution and in 1927 he applies for membership of the Communist Party of France
Monsieur Britta, this is your third appearance in your application to join the party, and I'm afraid we're by no means satisfied
You've not succeeded in justifying your surrealist activity to us if you are as you claim a Marxist
We cannot understand why you have any need to remain a surrealist
Art cannot without disqualifying itself agree to submit to any outside orders
Or humbly fill the ranks, which some would like to assign to it in the interests of short-term pragmatic ends
You will only transform man's condition if you take into account his subjective needs as well as his material ones
If you ignore them then communism will only create new forms of alienation
what we want is a
proletarian art that will describe proletarian life and proletarian aspirations
Bourgeois culture is dying
It is the artists job to help lead the workers towards a new popular art that will emerge with the liberation of the masses
But you are asking the impossible
How can a bourgeois artist be anything but inept at translating the workers aspirations?
Trotsky has already argued that it is pointless to contrast
proletarian and bourgeois culture in the pre-revolutionary period
To the extent that a culture is proletarian it is not yet a culture
To the extent that there is a culture
It is not yet
proletarian but look at your pasts
your comrade Monsieur Eragon recently referred to the Russian Revolution as have a
ministerial crisis and made silly jokes about Dadar in Moscow
You've taken a very sharp turns in then haven't you?
Why should we believe that your present view of the revolution is your real one and look at your backgrounds your?
Outrages of literary parties don't impress the workers they see you as the spoiled children of Cafe Society
Yes, it's true. We are asking to join your ranks in order to totally dissociate ourselves from the class we come from
But this is not as you suggest one more
provocation
We are far too conscious of the way bourgeois society tames its rebels
Savoring the poison and calling it
entertainment or
avant-garde
Fourt art even spiritual revolt can be reduced to a commodity
We can only avoid assimilation by writing hermetically by not making ourselves obvious to every
department store shop assistant
Mystery is frightening
only the
unclassifiable the indefinable is disconcerting and
Can be used to shake the complacency of the bourgeoisie, but think about whom you attract?
It's the bourgeoisie who left up your scandals
Your bless famiy is an erotic outrages only charm the jaded palate of the anarchist set amongst the aristocracy
Don't you see that since your works are appropriated and misinterpreted
It is necessary first to make a social revolution
after that you can think about heretic authenticity
To be anxious for such luxuries now is simply a diversion it encourages. Hope where there is none
No, I cannot accept that
Of course we regret the public treatment of our work
Of course we do not wish for their patronage
Perhaps it is true that we are wild beasts in a cage, but that does not make us wild beasts any the less
You seem to be saying on the one hand that we should create propaganda for immediate consumption by the masses
Against this we say that any revolutionary message that is embodied in a conservative form
cannot have a revolutionary effect and on the other hand you demand that the mind and
Imagination must abdicate until the revolution has been accomplished
And against this we would say that
Even if our work does not immediately help to precipitate the revolution
The job of interpreting man's condition is indispensable to building the post-revolutionary world
Every mistake in the interpretation of man
Involves a mistake in understanding the universe and becomes an obstacle to its transformation
In hannover kurt schwitters concept of MEPs has taken over his entire house, which becomes a constantly evolving Nertz building
Schwitters continues to create mets magazines mets collages and myths poetry
Pppp. Cyka, cyka, cyka, cyka
Children
long
for good
To you you to you how to you you to you?
to you
to you to you
to you
to you in you to you I
Gue
Good photo, okay, oka, oka?
You either give East and dammit these are stowed sir inherently hos Stanovich demo
in Munich Adolf Hitler opens the National Socialist Museum of pure Aryan art
In Berlin johnhart fields photomontages have evolved out of Dada into a powerful weapon of anti-nazi propaganda
the meaning of the Hitler salute
millions stand behind me
Through light towards night
Goering the butcher of the Third Reich
War and corpses always the hope of the rich
Madrid 1936
What the Angels received as Christmas presents a
Doll for Superman he swallows gold and spout junk
In Paris the surrealist groups summoned Salvador Dali to justify his obsessive interest in Hitler
Unfortunately, I forgotten most of the details of this very peculiar meeting, but I was suffering from the beginnings of a sore throat
Therefore I attended with a thermometer in my mouth
and I took my temperature several times during my trial which lasted far into the night I
Knelt down several times to exhort Breton to understand that my obsession with Hitler was strictly paranoid and essentially apolitical
I
Explained that I could not be a Nazi
because if Hitler conquered Europe he would seize the opportunity to do away with all hysterical characters such as myself as
he had already done in Germany by calling them DeGeneres I
pointed out that the feminine and irresistible silly role that I attributed to Hitler would be sufficient to classify me as an
iconoclast in the eyes of the Nazis
similarly my fanaticism
aggravated by Freud and Einstein
both of them expelled from Germany by Hitler made it obvious that Hitler interested me only as an object of my delirium and
because he seemed to me of
Incomparable catastrophic value in the end they were convinced of my innocence
But still I had to sign a document in which I declared my not to be an enemy of the proletariat
Assigned without any qualms since I have never had any feelings either for or against the proletariat
1938 man-ray photographs the mannequins created by the surrealist group for their Paris exhibition
This is the last surrealist event before the outbreak of war
1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London a refugee from the Nazis
Salvador Dali pays him a visit
Until now I had been inclined to regard the Surrealists who apparently have adopted me as their patron saint his complete fools
But that young Spaniard with his fanatic lies and undeniable technical mastery made me revise my opinion
In the pictures of the Masters of angler or Leonardo that which interests me is precisely the search for the unconscious idea
Dali's mystery is manifested outright the picture is but a mechanism to reveal itself
Mexica is about the only land that will have him so here
He is Trotsky landing at M pica with his wife
Once Lenin's partner and commander of the Red Army he's dodged about from country to country and one after another the men on trial in
Moscow confess that they've been plotting under his direction the Trotsky himself finds a refuge
after the collapse of his alliance with the Communist Party Gretl travels to Mexico and meets Trotsky together they write a
manifesto and make plans for a federation of independent
Revolutionary artists in art man expresses his need for harmony and a full existence which class
Society constantly denies him that is why there is always implied a conscious or unconscious active or passive
optimistic or pessimistic
protest against reality in any authentic artistic creation
Art can be the revolutions great Ally only insofar as it remains true to itself
The federation is short-lived by 1940 Trotsky has been murdered and many of the Surrealists have fled from the German invasion
these artists in exile in New York include Andre, Breton
Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Salvador Dali Yves Tanguy and Andre muscle
During these years Max Ernst paints a series of visionary landscapes
While a surrealist work in America many of their former colleagues have joined the French resistance
Forces of the French underground swarm against the Nazi and fight behind barricades as the Parisian masses have fought in many an insurrection
Patriot fighters plays away at German roots and buildings. They're shooting everywhere
children hurried across a street to safety out of a bullet swept area
scenes of the Paris uprising filmed by a French newsreel cameraman attached to the Patriot forces a
Wounded French Negro of the underground fighting
There's a German soldier there shooting at him with terrifying realism this start automatic motion picture film
shows the death of a Nazi killed by Patriot Gunners a
woman takes his gun
Even the prawns without rings from every throw big old symbol of free France and
resurgent Paris cheers to the strains of the Marcie a
19:46
Andre Breton returns to a hostile Paris the committed writers who have fought against the Nazis regards surrealism with scorn
Jean-paul Sartre writes the originality of surrealism lies in its attempt to appropriate everything metaphysics
They are a stock recei parasitism
Alliances with revolutionary groups the fact is that when the time for action came none of them were prepared to act
some of them kill themselves
Others are in exile
There's a remain are in exile amongst us
Tristan Tzara is now a member of the Communist Party and a veteran of the French Resistance
Where is surrealism today?
And how can it justify itself historically when we know that during the occupation it has been absent from this war
absent from our hearts and from our actions
The sole voice of surrealism able to appear freely during the war was a luxurious magazine published in New York
It did not contain the slightest mention of the Nazi occupation or of those who had other concerns than the playing of harmless
surrealist games
History has passed so realism by
Jean art is not impressed by the political commitments of his former Dada colleagues
Some old friends of mine from the days of Dada who always fought for dreams and freedom there now
disgustingly preoccupied with class aims and a busy turning the Hegelian dialectic into a hurdy-gurdy to
Conscientiously they mix poetry and the five-year plan in one pot
But man will not allow himself to be transformed into a scrubbed hygienic numeral
It is hard to imagine how the greatest individual lists can come out for a termite State
Be be be be be oh
Hey hey hey hey hey
Kurt schwitters has fled from germany to Norway from Norway to England after the war he moves to the lake district
creating Nets collages out of English materials
In a barn near Lake Windermere schwitters begins work on a new maths building although he is ill and impoverished
1948 couch fitters dies with one wall nearly completed
Dada had Khalid
Who had
Shown two sentences and lived certain dessert when did side count
We hadn't be a goner on Florida. She in scrap tagging
1954 Max Ernst is awarded the painting prize at the Venice, Biennale when he accepts it. He is expelled from the surrealist group
Seeing means usually you open your eyes, and you looked at out sad world
You can see in other way you close your eyes, and you looked in to your inner
And
I believe the best to do is to have one eye closed, and you look inside and this is TNI
With the other eye you have it fixed on reality. What is going on around in the world
if you can make a kind of a synthesis of
These two important worlds you come to a result
Which can be considered as the synthesis of
Objective and subjective life
In a way, and the outer world brought together to make me revolution in a painter and when I paint I feel absolutely free
One big danger is that you lose your mind you?
madness is always in the background and menaces you I
was born with a very strong feeling of freedom liberty
That means also with a very strong feeling of revolt
Revolt in revolution is not the same thing, but when people are born into a period they are so many
Events invite you to get revolted and
Threw over what is going on in the world and be disgusted with it so on
It is absolute natural that
Rock, you'll produce is a revolution in rock
Salvador Dali is written out of the surrealist movement by Andre Breton
His undertaking was spoiled by his ultra retrograde technique and discredited by a cynical indifference to the means which he used to advertise
himself
He has shown signs of panic and has only been able to save appearances through a scheme of deliberate vulgar ization
By now his work has become engulfed in
Academics ISM which claims on its own authority to be classicism and which in any case has no interest whatever force or realism
dolly remains unrepentant I
Am NOT a surrealist I am surrealism
The trouble with interviewing Salvador Dali is that he talks with everything at once including the radar whiskers, which locate his ideas
The Madonna of portly gut is in the new style
Romantic mysticism da recalls it if the meaning is obscure. There's no doubt about his brilliant drawing and color work
15,000 amateurs
Most impressive of all is dahlias crucifixion
After the war Andre Breton has parted company with many of his former friends
he displays less interest in politics or psychology and
His final attempt to reconcile dream with reality lies in the art of magic
In spite of all reservations one may have as to its principles the occult is
extremely interesting in that it maintains in a dynamic state the infinite system of
correspondences that lies at man's disposal
giving him the key to relations which are capable of linking objects apparently unconnected and
partially uncovering the mechanism of universal symbolism
In Brussels Rene Magritte continues to paint in his prosaic style
The other day someone asked me what the relationship was between my life, and my art I
Couldn't really think of any
accept that life obliges me to do something so I paint I
do not believe that man decides anything either the future or the present of humanity a
Universe of chance, I don't know
unknown forces I hate talking about that because he doesn't mean anything like talking about symbols I
Think we are responsible for the universe, but this does not mean that we decide anything
cause and effect
That's determinism and there again one would have to believe in it
If one is a determinist one must always believe that there is a cause which produces the same effect
I am NOT a determinist, but I don't believe in chance either
It serves a still another explanation of the world
the problem lies precisely in not accepting any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism I
Am NOT responsible for my belief. It is not even I who decides that I am NOT responsible and so on to infinity
I'm obliged not to believe
There is no point of departure
Brittle remains fiercely hostile to the way in which surrealism is increasingly debased to describe any work that seems weird or fantastic
Quasimodo's, so
Well
Asshole Adolf Hitler under Ginny's
I hear they're ready for us now at the start of the main raised this afternoon
So let's go right away and join Peter at the start. Well. They're under starter's orders for this very valuable Queen Victoria handicap
First offense
1966 Andre Breton dies
There is every reason to believe that there exists a certain point in the mind at which life and death real and imaginary
past and future
Communicable and in communicable high and low ceased to be perceived in terms of contradiction
On the death of his friend Andre brittle muscle. Do tional says I have never known a man who had a greater capacity for love
Berto loved like a heartbeats
And you cannot understand anything about his hatreds if you don't realize he acted in this way to protect his love for life
for the marvelous in life
He was the lover of love in a world that believes in prostitution
During the 1960's marcel duchamp work attracts the attention of younger artists
And he is described as the most radical thinker of modern art with an influence which is rivaled only by Picasso's
Major retrospective exhibitions of dashon's work are organized
Since many of his early works have been lost
Replicas multiple editions of them are made the large glass has been cracked, but two reproductions are constructed
What you were also attempting to do as I understand it was to
Devalue the art as an object simply by saying if I say it's a work of art. That makes it a work of art
Yeah, but a word work of art. You see is not so
Important for me. I don't care about the word art because it's been so
You know
Discredited in some oil so I already want to get rid of it
because the way many people today have done away with religion and
I've been in it all the time and still want to get rid of it you see and I cannot explain all I
Everything I do because I do things were why people do things and don't know why they do it. You know you see
the Antioch movement of Dada in fact was proved to be in the interest of art because it regenerated and
Revived and freshened people's attitude to it yes
Do you in fact anticipate that your own contribution when the final reckoning comes will have in fact?
Contributed to something called, art. I did in spite of myself if you wish to say
But I'm sorry in other words
I would I would like but at the same time if I did I had done it I would completely have been
Not even nervous, so people would haven't said anything you all right no
they probably a hundred people like that who have given up on and
Condemned it and prove to themselves it wasn't
necessary no more than religion so forth and who cares for them nobody never knew but in terms of the the
activities of the of the Dada group other than painting
The sort of happenings that they devise are in fact happening again. They are called happenings today
do you ever see or engage in these or the point that they've brought out so well an
interesting one is they play for you a
play of
boredom
It has been I'm not discovering that but it's very interesting to have used boredom as a name
Aim to
to attract the public in other word the public comes to are happening not to be amused to be bored and
that's quite an invention by the
Contribution to a new ideas isn't it when you set out to
Challenge all the established values your your means were shocked you shocked the Cubist you shocked the public you shut the buying public
Do you think the public can be shocked anymore by anything is finish finish? That's that's over you cannot shock a public
You regret the loss of shock, or do you think it's really the artists fault, but in fact the panel simply always expected no
But the shock would be of a different
Way a different
character
You see by shrugging at that time tracking alongside the old
channel speak
But the probably the shock will come of something entirely different
as I said no, not a nod to say and I AR t
See with that
No, no no art at all and yet something would be produced because after all I think the word art from
Italy magically means to do
not even to make but to do you say and
With minute you do something you are an artist in other word that you are not
So you don't sell your work that you do the action in other well art is
Means action in the activity of any kind
everyone anyway everyone
But we've now society has decided to make a group that be called artists a group
Doctors and so far which is purely artificial. You said you said in the twenties you proclaimed art
Is dead it isn't a suit. Yeah, well. That's what I meant by that you see I meant
That it's dead by the fact that instead of being singular
In a tea in little box like that so many artists in so many
squares
feet
By the fact it would be
Universal it would be a human a human
Factor in anyone's life to be an artist but not noticed as an artist you see what I mean in the event
Resolution, thank you very much. Well. I'm delighted
1968 Marcel Duchamp dies at his own request his grave carries the inscription
Anyway, it's always other people who die
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