Tristan Tzara--poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst--was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zrich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic--which often uses dadaist typography--as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries , a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alma Classics
ISBN-10
0714537624
ISBN-13
9780714537627
eBay Product ID (ePID)
626655
Product Key Features
Book Title
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
Author
Tristan Tzara
Original Language
French
Illustrator
Picabia, Frances, Yes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / General