Dada is a life style, not art

The end of dada

The end of dada is mystified as its beginnings. When Tzara declared dada dead in the dada convention at Weimar in 1922, he could not know that a year later the Netherlands would be stricken by the dada campaign of Van Doesburg and Schwitters.

In Berlin dada went down under the political violence and the internal rows between anarchists and communists. Georg Grosz emigrated to the United States. John Heartfield went on protesting against the ascending nazism with his famous political-satirical photo collages until he had to flee.

In Paris Breton became the pope of the surrealism. This art movement is often seen as the result of dada, but should be seen as the result of the decline of dada in the triumphant city of Paris. Surrealism was to programmatic for dadaists. The movement clearly left no place for the by chance and circumstances determined dadaist diversity.

Zaal Rosehaghe
Dada soirée
Dada Holland
Life = art
Dada stands for diversity
History of dada
Dada Zurich
Dada Berlin and Paris
The end of dada
Heritage of dada
The dadaist

Updated 3 april 2001; Comments to Martin Woestenburg.

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