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Tristan Tzara , Dada and Surrealism By, Michael E. Moats
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Dada1, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, July 1917), cover, andDada
2,ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1917), cover.
(Hoffman)Tristan Tzara (born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, a.ka. S.
Samyro; April 16 1896, in Romania
Born into a Jewish family, his 1st language was probably
Yiddish, his second Romanian, and his adopted language French. In
fact the majority of his work was written in French.
Having been sent away to boarding school at 11, he actually
started his writing career with the magazine Simbolul, under the
direction of Adrian Maniu, when he was 16.
(PoemHunter.com)
Dada3, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1918), cover.
(Hoffman) So Tzara was a major president in Dada, the movement to
end all movements, in reaction to that War to end all wars, WWI or
the Great War.
Avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active
as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and
film director (Hoffman)
So Tzara collaborated with other Romanian Jews notably Marcel
and Georges Janco to start the Dadaist movement. (Sanderson)
Dada3, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1918).
(Hoffman)During WWI, Tzara joined Marcel Janco in Switzerland at
the Cabaret Voltaire and performed drama, recited his poetry and
his Dadaist manifestos.
Though nobody knows where the term comes from, some say Dada in
French it means hobby horse. In German it means good-bye, Get off
my back, Be seeing you sometime. In Romanian: Yes, indeed, you are
right, that's it.(Spencer)
Dada45(Anthologie Dada),ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, May 1919),
cover. (Hoffman) From Dada Manifesto
Dadaist Disgust (KennethDouglas)
Der Dada3, ed. Raoul Hausmann (Berlin, April 1920), cover. In
Zrich, Tzara met many writers and artist who would later found the
Dadaist movement. Among these were Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy
Hennings, who rented the Cabaret Voltaire, the venue for their
performance art, Hans Arp,Arthur Segal,Otto van Rees,Max
Oppenheimer, andMarcel Sodki. His old friend Marcel Janco also
joined the troupe, as did writer and drummer Richard Huelsenbeck.
The Troupe in Zrich Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp,
Arthur Segal, Otto Van Rees, Max Oppenheimer, Marcel Janco, Richard
Huelsenbeck, and Marcel Stodki. (Gullette)
Though the movement began as a literary venue, it quickly moved
to performance and visual arts movement. (Sayre)
In Zrich, Tzara met many writers and artist who would later
found the Dadaist movement. Among these were Hugo Ball and his wife
Emmy Hennings, who rented the Cabaret Voltaire, the venue for their
performance art, Hans Arp,Arthur Segal,Otto van Rees,Max
Oppenheimer, andMarcel Sodki. His old friend Marcel Janco also
joined the troupe, as did writer and drummer Richard Huelsenbeck.In
Zrich, Tzara met many writers and artist who would later found the
Dadaist movement. Among these were Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy
Hennings, whoented the Cabaret Voltaire, the venue for their
performance art, Hans Arp,Arthur Segal,Otto van Rees,Max
Oppenheimer, andMarcel Sodki. His old friend Marcel Janco also
joined the troupe, as did writer and drummer Richard Huelsenbeck.In
Zrich, (Hoffman)
3912, ed. Francis Picabia (Barcelona, February 10, 1917), cover.
Many authors, and artists from France, Germany, and Italy joined
the movement.
Eventually, artists from the United States joined the fray.
(Hartt)(Hoffman)
The Blind Man1, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and
Henri-Pierre Roch (New York, April 10, 1917), cover. (Hoffman)From
France, it was Marcel Duchamp who led the movement with his
outrageous paintings and sculptures.
Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 (Swanson) In
this painting, Marcel Duchamp integrates the Cubist to the
Futurists in a brave Dadaist way.
he Blind Man2, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and
Henri-Pierre Roch (New York, May 1917), pp. 23. (Hoffman) The photo
to the left shows Duchamps readymade sculpture of a urinal, which
he aptly called Fountain. (Hoffman)
IIn 1918, Francis Picabia, and Marcel Duchamp, from France, and
Man Ray from the U.S., formed the Nihilist offshoot from Dada.
This movement was extreme Dada, Nihilism is the belief that all
values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a
radicalskepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would
believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than,
perhaps, an impulse to destroy.(Pratt)
www.niilists.netNeozubair.worldpress.com
Dada6(Bulletin Dada),ed. Tristan Tzara (Paris, February 1920),
cover. (Hoffman)Dada in Paris, 1920With: Louis Aragon, Breton, and
Ribemont-Dessaignes, Arp and Tzara from Zurich, Man Ray and Picabia
from New York, and Max Ernst from Cologne. (Sayre) , (Hoffman)
& (ArtHistory.net)
Minotaure10, ed. Albert Skira (Paris, Winter 1937), cover
(Hofman).Dadaism eventually evolved into Surrealism.
Andr Breton led the charge and change to surrealism. (Hoffman)
but second sourced fro Bretons Manifeste du surrealisme
La Rvolution surraliste12, ed. Andr Breton (Paris, December 15,
1929), cover. (Hoffman) Though the Surrealist movement began as a
literary genre, it too quickly evolved into a visual art
movement.
To name a few: Andr Breton, Salvador Dal, Giorgio de Chirico,
Robert Desnos, Marcel Duchamp, and Michel Leiris.
We should also add the Ultraistas like Jorge Luis Borges.
(Hoffman), (Pratt) & (Spenser)
My favorite surrealist artist is Salvador Dal and this painting
is called The Persistence of MemoryI wrote this tribute to Dal and
his expressed philosophy of Gastro Esthetic Cannibalism when I was
18:
To Dal or Gastro Aesthetic Cannibalism
Munching on fingers,I assimilate,osmosize sculpture art;grace
metaphors.
Those mothsnot butterflies in stomach,feed on each
other,death-head victor,rends gastric-wallsin carnivore jaws.
Lust tastes, wants and screams insatiably more! more!
That wind, of hate, hungers for our warmth,gnaws at corners of
cloth-skins,and sins.
Beauty-day consumes beast-ugly-night,and moon that sunand we
that son of God?
Tears and rivers erode-bits of wealth-from Earth and brow;(both
being faces and planets)leavingonlyrotting fearsome stenchand
time.
Life in lark exaltation, death in black-raven shriek-cosmic
orality-consuming all.
(Salvidordalipaintings.blogspot.com)
Poems from Borges
Lluvia Bruscamente la tarde se ha aclaradoPorque ya cae la
lluvia minuciosa.Cae o cay. La lluvia es una cosaQue sin duda
sucede en el pasado.
Quien la oye caer ha recobradoEl tiempo en que la suerte
venturosaLe revel una flor llamada rosaY el curioso color del
colorado.
Esta lluvia que ciega los cristalesAlegrar en perdidos
arrabalesLas negras uvas de una parra en cierto
Patio que ya no existe. La mojadaTarde me trae la voz, la voz
deseada,De mi padre que vuelve y que no ha muerto. (A. Z.
Forman)RainThe afternoon has brightened up at lastFor rain is
falling, sudden and minute.Falling or fallen. There is no
dispute:Rain is a thing that happens in the past.
Who hears it fall retrieves a time that fledWhen an uncanny
windfall could discloseTo him a flower by the name of roseAnd the
perplexing redness of its red.
Falling until it blinds each windowpaneOut in a lost suburbia
this rainShall liven black grapes on a vine inside
A certain patio that is no more.A longed-awaited voice through
the downpourIs from my father. He has never died. . (A. Z.
Forman)
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