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Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

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Odilon Redon, Cyclops, c. 1912

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Chagall, Paris Through a Window, 1913

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Chagall, I and The Village, 1911

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Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer's Recompense, 1913

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Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914

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Dada (1914-20S) (absorbed by Surrealism in the mid-20s) irrationality, anarchy, cynicism and the rejection of laws of beauty and social organization anti-art that would destroy culture and therefore war Hugo Ball reciting sound poems in the Cabaret Voltaire, 1916

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Tristan Tzara

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(The signatories of this manifesto live in France, America, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, etc. but have no nationality.) DADA EXCITES EVERYTHING DADA knows everything. DADA spits everything out. BUT......... HAS DADA EVER SPOKEN TO YOU: about Italy about accordions about women's pants about the fatherland about sardines about Fiume about Art (you exaggerate my friend) about gentleness about D'Annunzio what a horror about heroism about mustaches about lewdness about sleeping with Verlaine about the ideal (it's nice) about Massachusetts about the past about odors about salads about genius, about genius, about genius about the eight-hour day about the Parma violets NEVER NEVER NEVER DADA doesn't speak. DADA has no fixed idea. DADA doesn't catch flies. THE MINISTRY IS OVERTURNED. BY WHOM? BY DADA Paris January 12, 1921 E. Varse, Tr. Tzara, Ph. Soupault, Soubeyran, J. Rigaut, G. Ribe- mont-Dessaignes, M. Ray, F. Pi- cabia, B. Pret, C. Pausaers R.Hlsenbeeks, J. Evola, M. Ernst, P. Eluard, Suz. Duchamp, M. Du- champ, Crotti, G. Cantarelli, Marg. Buffet, Gab. Buffet, a. Breton Baargeld, Arp., W. C. Arensberg, L. Aragon For all information write "AU SANS PAREIL" 37, Avenue Klber. Tel. PASSY 25-22 --- From Approximate Man and Other Writings, Translated and Edited by Mary Ann Caws (Wayne State University Press) Reprinted in "Teachers & Writers Collaborative" 5 Union Square W. New York City 10003 Send us e-mail Subscribe Go Home Go to the most recent RALPH

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The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADA A Young girl commits suicide. Because of What? DADA The spirits are telephoned. Who invented it? DADA Someone walks on your feet. It's DADA If you have serious ideas about life, If you make artistic discoveries and if all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter, If you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that IT IS DADA BEGINNING TO SPEAK TO YOU cubism constructs a cathedral of artistic liver paste WHAT DOES DADA DO? expressionism poisons artistic sardines WHAT DOES DADA DO? simultaneism is still at its first artistic communion WHAT DOES DADA DO? futurism wants to mount in an artistic lyricism-elevator WHAT DOES DADA DO? unanism embraces allism and fishes with an artistic line WHAT DOES DADA DO? neo-classicism discovers the good deeds of artistic art WHAT DOES DADA DO? paroxysm makes a trust of all artistic cheeses WHAT DOES DADA DO? ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven artistic things WHAT DOES DADA DO? creationism vorticism imagism also propose some artistic recipes WHAT DOES DADA DO? 50 francs reward to the person who finds the best way to explain DADA to us Dada passes everything through a new net. Dada is the bitterness which opens its laugh on all that which has been made consecrated forgotten in our language in our brain in our habits. It says to you: There is Humanity and the lovely idiocies which have made it happy to this advanced age DADA HAS ALWAYS EXISTED THE HOLY VIRGIN WAS ALREADY A DADAIST DADA IS NEVER RIGHT Citizens, comrades, ladies, gentlemen Beware of forgeries! Imitators of DADA want to present DADA in an artistic form which it has never had CITIZENS, You are presented today in a pornographic form, a vulgar and baroque spirit which is not the PURE IDIOCY claimed by DADA BUT DOGMATISM AND PRETENTIOUS IMBECILITY

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Dada (1914-20S) and Surrealism Andre Breton, 1924 Surrealism (is) pure psychic automatism . Thought in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of associations heretofore neglected, in the omnipotence of the dream and the disinterested play of thought. Surreality (is) the reconciliation of the reality of dreams with the reality of everyday life into a higher Synthesis. Expressions of the Unconscious: Chance Play Automatisms (Freud, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, 1911)

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Hans (Jean) Arp Zurich Dada Collage arranged according to the laws of chance 1916-1917, torn and pasted paper, 19 x 13 Automatic Drawing 1917-18 Ink and pencil on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 1/4"

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Arp, Collage made according to the rules of Chance, 1916

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Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) 1924 Gelatin silver print 11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in. Indestructible Object (or Object to be Destroyed) 1923 (replica of 1964) Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum wood, metal, paint and photograph 8 x 4 x 4 Man Ray

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Picabia, Portrait of Cezanne, 1920

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FP St. Vierge 15

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Picabia, Girl Born without a Mother, 1918

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Francis Picabia - Here, This is Stieglitz/ Faith and Love, 1915

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Marcel Duchamp The Fountain 1917 ready-made, porcelain plumbing fixture and enamel paint, 24 h.

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