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DADA AVI 4M1

DADA AVI 4M1. World War 1; “The Great War”; 1914 - 1918. an entire generation was being slaughtered in a war that need not have been fought. over 13 million killed; 60 million casualties in total.

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DADA AVI 4M1

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  1. DADA AVI 4M1

  2. World War 1; “The Great War”; 1914 - 1918 • an entire generation was being slaughtered in a war that need not have been fought. • over 13 million killed; 60 million casualties in total • European civilization, with all its polite surface refinements, proved to be brutal, cruel and suicidal underneath.

  3. Not everyone supported the war: • Conscientious objectors and pacifists refused to fight. Many served in non-violent roles in the army. • others fled to avoid the draft to neutral states . . .

  4. . . . like Switzerland. Zurich, Switzerland

  5. Young avant garde poets, writers, actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists began to congregate in Zurich. Emmy Hennings, Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara

  6. They were Nihilists: they thought the only hope for society was the destruction of old institutions and systems and the creation of new ones. They wanted to reinvent culture from the ground up.

  7. They wanted to be in harmony with nature: “Nature is neither beautiful nor ugly, neither good nor bad. It is fantastic, monstrous, and infinitely unrestrained. Nature wants to exist and develop, that is all. Being in harmony with nature is the same as being in harmony with madness.” - Hugo Ball Jean Arp, Configuration, 1916

  8. They would recite nonsense sound poetry in nonsensical costumes: Hugo Ball reciting poetry, 1916 How natural! Nature makes sounds without literal meaning. . .

  9. They would make nonsensical artworks using chance: How natural! Nature makes designs by chance. . . Jean Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916–17

  10. Why ‘DADA’? It’s one of first words we utter as children? It’s slang for rocking horse in Switzerland? It’s a nonsense word? You decide.

  11. Meanwhile in New York City … Very similar things were going on .

  12. Meanwhile in New York City … a smart, irreverent group of artists were redefining what art could be. Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia

  13. Duchamp coined the term, “readymade”: an object not created by an artist, but one that becomes an artwork because of its context and because the artist labels it as such. It’s an artwork because I’m an artist and I say it’s an artwork. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

  14. Marcel Duchamp, In Advance of a Broken Arm, 1915

  15. Marcel Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1914

  16. Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913

  17. Read aloud, the title sounds like “Elle a chaud au cul”. Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

  18. Man Ray, Object to be Destroyed, 1923 (original destroyed)

  19. Man Ray, Cadeau, 1921

  20. Man Ray is best remembered as a pioneering Modernist photographer. Man Ray, Le Violon d’Ingres, 1924

  21. Man Ray, Marquise Casati, 1922

  22. Man Ray, Rayograph, c. 1921

  23. Francis Picabia, Parade Amoureuse, 1917

  24. Francis Picabia, Balance, 1919

  25. Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915 - 1923

  26. Meanwhile in Germany … very similar things were going on too!

  27. Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

  28. Raul Hausmann, Tatlin at Home, 1920

  29. Raul Hausmann, Spirit of Our Time, 1919

  30. Kurt Schwitters, Merz compositions, 1923 - 32

  31. Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau 1924-37

  32. First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920; the last hurrah.

  33. Dadaism had no common philosophy. Dadaists were individualists, anarchists, nihilists and libertarians. Consequently, it was short-lived, lasting only 4 or 5 years Kurt Schwitters, Merz, 1920

  34. Dada ‘art’ is not really Art. Dadaists hated Art. They thought all Art should be destroyed. Kurt Schwitters, Merz, 1920

  35. Why bother to study DADA then? Because of Dadaism’s influence on later art movements: • their use of found objects /readymades; • Anything could now be considered art given its context. Robert Rauschenberg, Odalisk, 1955-58

  36. Why bother to study DADA then? Because of Dadaism’s influence on later art movements: - their emphasis onideas instead of visual qualities; Gary Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

  37. Why bother to study DADA then? Because of Dadaism’s influence on later art movements: - their use of chance as a legitimate method of art production; Joan Miro, Hand Catching a Bird

  38. Why bother to study DADA then? Because of Dadaism’s influence on later art movements: - they paved the way for Surrealism: Rene Magritte, Ceci n’est pas une pipe, 1926

  39. Fin.

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