MPC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Kurt Schwitters, Homicide, Marcel Duchamp
31 Dec 2015
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Dada homicide aka war rejected rational for irrational and absurd. Ww1 was horrifying, people are inhuman, chaos everywhere. Dada is a reaction to what was an insane spectacle of collective. More of a mindset/attitude than a single, identifiable style. Saw enlightenment reasoning as cause of devastation therefore. Term was randomly chosen: french for a child"s hobby horse . Disdain for tradition destructive and iconoclastic. Cynical and pessimistic, attacked logic and convention but still humorous, lighthearted, sardonic. Interested in freud and unconscious, saw art as avenue for catharsis and self-revelation. Used junk and trash, pasted and nailed together. Very dada: elevating trash to high art: merz 19. Berlin dadaism had an activist, political edge. Pioneered photomontage: assemblages from magazines, combined in. Chaotic satirical compositions and scathing commentary on women"s antilogical compositions social roles and mass print media: cut with the kitchen knife dada through the last weimar beer. Key figures of anti-dada (weimar republic) are grouped together.
