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By the spring of 1916 nearly three million men have died in the fighting

During the Battle of the Somme twenty-five thousand are killed in one day

honor Petrit ISM family art religion morality

All these notions had once answered human needs

now nothing remained of them, but skeletons

The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art, but have discussed

in a French military hospital a young medical student Andre Breton is

conducting experiments in greem analysis on his shell-shocked patients

Brittle meets one soldier who insists that the war is a sham

But the bullets are only dummies

The wounds are merely makeup and the dead are taken from hospitals and distributed at night across the phony battlefield

That available

Via di da da

Havin this Obama to Platts in the world the bomba escape lads and Hatfield Rajkumar

De splitter Sindh American surveilled first art verse mahadji museum hurt

Sisu indiscreet Otsu salmon in turin see in iran Australia when the public on

acidic Wien portal

In the safety of neutral Zuri Hugo ball opens the Cabaret Voltaire a group of artists and writers invent the word

Dada to describe their activities Dada thrives on contradictions it is creative and destructive

Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it

hands up from Alsace makes wood cups and sculptures

Dad I wanted to replace the logical nonsense of man with the illogically senseless

Dada is senseless like nature Dada is for nature and against part

philosophies have less value for Dada than an old toothbrush and

Dada abandons them to the great leaders

Tristan Tzara from Romania writes Dada manifestos I

Write a manifesto, and I want nothing

Yet, I say certain things and in principle. I'm against manifestos as I'm also against principles

The principle love thy neighbor isn't hypocrisy

Know thyself is utopian, but more acceptable since it embraces wickedness

No pity

Even after this carnage we still retain the hope of a purified mankind I

Speak only for myself since I do not wish to convince. I have no right to drag others into my River

I'm against action for continuous contradiction for affirmation to aya neither for nor against

And I do not explain because I hate common sense

Some people think they can explain rationally by thought what they think, but that is extremely relative

psychoanalysis is a dangerous disease it puts to sleep the anti objective impulses of man and

systematizes the bourgeoisie

The dialectic is an amusing mechanism, which guides us in a banal kind of a way to the opinions we had in the first place

Marcel Yanko from Romania makes masks for the Cabaret

Yanko has made a number of masks for the new show which recall the ancient greek or japanese theater, and yet they are totally modern

What fascinates us all is that they represents not human characters?

But passions that are larger than life the horror of our time is made visible

Out of cardboard paper

horsehair and wire he created lesbian sardines

languorous fetuses

ecstatic mice

In an effort to escape the monstrous aggot ISM of the artists hands are proclaims the lure of chance

What arrogance is concealed in perfection?

Why struggle for purity in position when they can never be attained?

the law of chance which embraces all other laws and is as

Unfathomable as the depth from which all life arises can only be comprehended by a complete surrender to the unconscious

I'm in pain that whoever submits to this law attains Pure Life

Tristan tzara discovers the formula for dada poetry to make a data is poem take a newspaper take a pair of scissors

Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem cut out the article

Then cut out it to the words that make up the article and place in a bag

Shake gently

Then take out each of the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag

copy conscientiously

The poem will be like you and here you are a writer

Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar

19:18 the painter Francis Picabia arrives in Zurich

He is rich articulate nihilistic to meet Picabia was like an experience of meeting death

The cobia travels around the world producing copies of his magazine 3 9 1

Every page must explode whether through seriousness profundity in nausea

Annihilating nonsense all the way it is printed art must be unaesthetic in the extreme useless and impossible to justify

There are 391 presidents of the Dada movement anyone who wishes to become a president of the Dada movement can be one

Picabo's magazines and mechanical paintings connect the zurich dada s with a most hermetic and radical of all the aunty art artists

Marcel Duchamp

Born into a prosperous bourgeois family in Normandy by the age of 25

Do Chanel's painting has evolved through a rapid succession of styles?

Then he reacts violently against painting as a source of pleasure

I

Wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind to establish myself as far as possible

against pleasing or attractive paintings

1912

Duchamp paints nude descending a staircase an analysis of a moving figure influenced by photographic research in one of Mario's books I

Saw an illustration of how he delineate the different movements of people who fence or horses galloping there was no flesh

Only a simplified Anatomy up and down they had the arms and legs

1913 Duchamp paints a chocolate grinding machine it was there that I began to think I could avoid all contact with traditional pictorial

Painting which is found even in my own nude descending a staircase

Taste is a habit the repetition of something already accepted

Good or bad it still tastes

But mechanical drawing up holds no taste since it lies outside all pictorial conventions

Duchamp continues his struggle against the tyranny of taste by mounting a bicycle wheel onto a stool

Next he selects a bottle rack from a parish shop

He calls these objects ready-made works of art to choose a ready-made

I had to beware of its look because after two weeks you begin to like it or hate it

You have to approach the object as if you had no aesthetic emotion the choice of ready-mades is always based on visual indifference

19:15 Ducie arrives in New York

He signs a urinal with the name our mutt

Entitles it fountain and enters it in the Society of independent artists exhibition

This work is suppressed by the society and a protest about the incident appears in a new york dada magazine

What were the grounds for refusing mr. Mutts fountain some contended? He was a model vulgar others

It was plagerism a plain piece of plumbing now mr.

Mutts fountain is not a model that is absurd no more than a bathtub AZ model

Whether mr.. Mott with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it

he took an ordinary article of life and

Created a new thought for that object as for plumbing that is absurd

The only works of art America has given her her plumbing and her bridges

in New York Duchamp works on his large glass the bride stripped bare by her bachelors even

Painting and inscribing onto a glass panel a number of forms which appear to add up to a mechanistic

representation of sexuality

Do shells notes describe the function of each element in the glass right above

Bachelors below the bachelors serving is an architectonic base for the bride

This latter becomes a sort of apotheosis of virginity

But the place where this eroticism is revealed

Which should be one of the principal cogs of the bachelor machine this tormented gearing gives birth to the desire part of the Machine?

The bride at her base is a reservoir of love gasoline

Ottoman power

this timid power

Distributed to the motor with quite feeble cylinders in contact with the sparks of her constant life

Explodes and makes this virgin blossom who was attained her desire?

The chocolate of the rollers coming from one knows not where would deposit itself after grinding as milk chocolate

The Bachelor grinds his chocolate himself

After eight years of work on the large glass to show abandoned the project declaring his work is definitively incomplete

1918

Germany is disintegrating in the wake of famine military chaos and the collapse of the kaisers government

Richard Hudson Bek brings data from Zurich to Berlin in Berlin Dada is primarily political and collective

The manifesto was a literary medium answered our need for directness we had no time to lose

We wanted to incite our opponents, and if necessary to create new opponents for ourselves

We hated nothing so much as romantic silence in the search for a soul the soul can only reveal itself through direct action

The Dadaist central Revolutionary Council demands one

the International Revolution reunion of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical communism

to the introduction of progressive unemployment through the comprehensive

mechanization of every field of activity

three

the immediate expropriation of property and the communal feeding of all

The erection of cities of light and Gardens which will belong to society as a whole and prepare man for a state of freedom

We further demand

Daily meals at public expense for all creative and intellectual men and women on the potsdamer platz

Compulsory attendance of all clergymen and teachers to the Dadaist articles of faith

the most brutal struggle against the concealed bourgeois tendencies of Expressionism

Introduction of the simultaneous poem as a communist state prayer

George gross draws portraits of Berlin society

Members of the club Dada include John Hartfield George gross Hannah hawk and

raoul hausmann who developed the technique of photo montage

The field of photo montage has as many possibilities as there are changes in the environment

Photo montage creates from totally disparate elements a new unity which reveals a conceptually new image of the chaos of an age of war and

revolution

Raoul hausmann develops his phonetic poems when language becomes petrified in the Academy's

Ravaged and made barren by journalism. It's true spirit takes refuge amongst children and mad

ladies and gentlemen

From

1920 Dada in Berlin reaches its climax were the first international Dada affair

From the ceiling hangs the effigy of a German officer with a pig's head and a placard around his neck proclaiming hanged by the revolution

The answer to the question whether or not our work can be called art

depends on whether or not the future belongs to the working class a

Man introduces himself to the Berlin Dada group with the words, I'm a painter, and I nail my pictures together

He applies for membership of the club Dada, but is vetoed on account of his bourgeois face his name is caught schwitters

rejected by the Dardis

He returns to Hanover cuts up an advertisement and creates the word Metz which he uses to describe his paintings and poetry

Metz stands for freedom from all fetters for the sake of artistic creation

Maths is as tolerant as possible towards its materials

I saw no reason that old tickets pieces of driftwood wire wheels

Buttons rubbish from attics should not be used for paintings on an equal footing with pigments manufactured in paint factories

To some extent this was a social point of view but above all it was the ultimate in logical consistency

In Cologne Max Ernst and Johannes boggled initiate the Dada conspiracy of the Rhineland

VAR gelt has just founded the Rhineland Communist Party and ence has just discovered the principle of collage I

Found myself taking an obsessive interest in the pages of an illustrated catalogue, which later hand I?

experienced a hallucinatory succession of double and triple images and what had been simply banaue pages of advertisements

Became so many dramas revealing my most secret desires

19:20 tristan tzara brings Dada from Zurich to Paris where he is awaited like a messiah

Using the rhetoric that

Is

innate in

eternity

Everything is genetic again it is

Merely pulusu the law sir eight to eight hours increase my buddy come

On Parvati. We are know the puny kddeitrick

Love a vote result up

In Paris do still paints a mustache on to the Mona Lisa

Andre Breton is editing the magazine literature, which becomes the mouthpiece for Dada in Paris Sarah and Breton write manifestos

Picabia designs magazines

Dada organises excursions and outrages

At the South gavel we created a great scandal

For the first time in the history of the world people threw at us

Not only eggs salads and pennies, but beef steaks as well. It was a great success the audience was extremely, Dada

Tonight's performance will include a ballet for three farad sardines and the reverie of the forsaken brontosaurus

Dodger is not a mystification. It is the entire human mystery we were right to be suspicious

Dada is clearly a facade for German infiltration

Dada a limited company for the exploitation of the vocabulary

Double your income with data only Dada is worth the investment of intellectual capital

The picturesque is the opposite of art, art is the opposite of life?

If you read and Rashidah out for 10 minutes your breath will stink

The first mechanical work of art was created by mrs.. Zahra the day when she brought little Christian into the world

If you wish to give her ideas clean you must change them regularly like her shirts

Dada has become as boring as the Academie Francaise in an effort to prolong its life Dada has become sealed up inside

itself

Trude artists are against, Dada

By 1922 the da dice are bringing out entire magazines devoted to insulting each other

Sarah and Gretel and Picabia quarrel violently Dada has destroyed itself

Francis Picabia writes the scenario for Rena Clare's film on fact

Tristan tzara delivers a funeral oration for da da da da marches on destroying more and more

From all these feelings of disgust it draws no conclusions no pride and no profit

It no longer even fights for it knows that this serves. No purpose and

Here we come to the great secret

Da da is a state of mind that is why it transforms itself according to all the events and nations it encounters

Da da applies itself to everything and yet it is nothing

Dada is the point at which yes, and no and all opposites meet

not noisily in the palaces of human philosophy

But quite simply at street corners like dogs and grasshoppers

Da da is useless like everything else in life

Dada has no pretensions. Just as life should have none

From the debris of da da Andre Breton begins to organize a more positive direction for the energy Dada has unleashed

Leave everything

Leave, Dada

Leave your wife

Leave your mistress

Leave your hopes and your fears

So your children in the corner of a would?

Leave the substance for the shadow

Set out on the road

Brittle system is searching for access to the unconscious under the pretence of civilization and progress

We have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed

superstition

Forbidden is any kind of search for truth that does not conform with accepted practices

It was apparently by pure chance

That part of our mental world

Which we pretended not to be concerned with in my opinion the most important part

Has been brought to light

for this we must give thanks to Sigmund Freud the

Imagination is perhaps on the point of reasserting itself of reclaiming its rights

Britain becomes the central figure of a group of writers and artists seeking a new balance between conscious and unconscious thought

He responds to the mystery implied by giorgio de chirico as paintings

De Kirikou writes

What will the aim of future paintings be to create previously unknown sensations?

to strip out of everything routine accepted

To see everything including man as the thing itself

But a work of art to be truly immortal. It must go beyond the limits of the human

common sense and logic will fail

In this manner it will approach the dream and mentality of childhood

I

Believe in the future resolution of these two states of dream and reality which appears have contradictory

in a kind of absolute reality

Sooo, reality one might call it

It would be an error to consider art as an end

The doctrine of art for art's sake seems senseless to me

We know that poetry must lead somewhere

Louis Aragon writes the Paris peasant describing the revelations that lurk beneath the surface of the city

Man no longer worships the gods on their Heights

Solomon's Temple has slid into a world of metaphor

But there are other places where men go calmly about their mysterious lives

Where a profound religion is gradually taking place? I?

Begin to discover the face of the infinite behind the concrete forms, which has caught me through this world

Reality is the apparent absence of contradictions

The marvelous is the eruption of contradictions within the real?

Love is a state of confusion

between the real and the marvelous

When the marvelous is dispossessed the abstract moves in

Surrealism

Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express either verbally or in writing the true function of thought

Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason

outside all moral or esthetic preoccupations

The first phase of surrealist art is intuitive Andre Masum develops the technique of automatic drawing I

Begin without an image or plan in mind, but paint or draw rapidly according to my impulses

Gradually in the marks. I make I see suggestions of figures or objects I encourage thee is to emerge

Trying to bring out their implications. Even as I now consciously try to give order to the composition

To adapt his automatic technique to painting muscle applies Sun directly to the canvas

Fixing his image with glue and paint

When Miro develops a system of intuitive signs within his paintings rather than setting out to paint something I

Begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself under my brush

the form becomes a sign a woman or a bird

For me a form is never something abstract it is always a sign for something

Max Ernst invents frottage creating images from the impressions of surfaces on August 10th

1925 I was struck by the obsession exerted upon my excited gaze by the floor

at random, I dropped pieces of paper and rubbed them with black LED I

Was surprised by the sudden intensification of my visionary faculties

By enlarging my minds hallucinatory powers I

succeeded in attending

Simply as a spectator at the birth of my own work

To advance their exploration of the unconscious the Surrealists open research office and issue their own visiting cards

Parents tell your dreams to your children

Surrealism is it the communism of genius you who cannot see think of those who care?

Antonin Artaud is appointed director of the research office art all rights addresses to the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists

We are your very faithful servants oh great Lama

Grant to us your wisdom in a language are contaminated European minds can understand

We are surrounded by roughneck Pope's

Scribblers critics dogs whose thoughts are earthbound who think incorrigibly in the present

teach us llama

Material levitation of the body and how we can be held no longer by the earth

Her back into the ocean those white men who arrived with their small heads and well-behaved minds

We suffer from a corruption the corruption of reason

Logical Europe endlessly crushes the mind between the jaws of two extremes. It opens and re closes the mind

We have suffered too long under the yoke

Like you we reject progress

Come and tear down our houses

19:28

salvador dali arrives in Paris aged 24

He denounces Suzanne as a very dirty painter and bases his own style on pure illusionism

the illusionism of the most abject

Lea a TV stand imitative art the usual paralyzing tricks of drone lorry the most

analytically narrative and discredited academics ISM can all become sublime

Hierarchies a thought and a path to a new precision of concrete irrationality

From his reading of Freud and Lacan Darley develops his paranoia critical method

Paranoia makes use of the external world to impose its obsessive notions with disturbing particularity

the external world serves as an illustration placed at the service of the minds reality I

believe that the moment is near when the procedure of active paranoid thought will make it possible to systematize confusion and

Contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality

Dali's arrival coincides with the second phase of Surrealism creating concrete models of irrationality

Eve Tommie paints imaginary landscapes

Myk's Ernst makes collages out of 19th century illustrations

Rene Magritte becomes a member of the Belgian surrealist group who carefully preserved their independence from bretons regime?

The art of painting which ought to be called the art of lightness amidst the description with paint of a thought capable of becoming palpable

This thought only comprises shapes presented to us by the world of appearance

There's nothing symbolic about it

Alberto Giacometti creates sculptures, which he calls objects designed to arouse unconscious desires

Everyone who saw his object experienced a strong, but indefinable

sexual emotion this emotion was not one of satisfaction, but of disturbance

Like that imparted by the irritating awareness of failure

Dushaan invents a new identity for himself as a woman I

wanted to change my personality I

Was a Catholic and the first idea that came to me was to take a Jewish name and change religion

Then I thought why not change sex it was much simpler

He renames himself air hose Silla v an ambiguous pun in French

In the poetry of Paul, Illawarra

And the photographs of Man Ray love is celebrated as the supreme surreal moment the ultimate fusion of the self were the other

She is standing on my eyelids and her hair is in mine

She has the shape of my hands. She has the color of my eyes

She is engulfed in my shadow like a stone against the sky

Her eyes are always open

She does not let me sleep

Her dreams in broad daylight make suns evaporate make me laugh weep and laugh and speak

without anything to say

Duchamp creates a few works within his new identity

but during the 1920s and 30s he appears to abandon art and seems to spend most of his time playing chess I

like living breathing better than working if

You wish my art would be that of living each second each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere

Which is not a cerebral nor visual. It's a sort of constant euphoria

Eve Tanguy captures spiders and eats them alive

Salvador Dali opens exhibitions dressed in a diving suit benjamin purvey insults priests passing in the street

The surrealist movement seems to be caught between the world of bourgeois art and the realm of irrational behavior

Andre Breton sees only one solution and in 1927 he applies for membership of the Communist Party of France

Monsieur Britta, this is your third appearance in your application to join the party, and I'm afraid we're by no means satisfied

You've not succeeded in justifying your surrealist activity to us if you are as you claim a Marxist

We cannot understand why you have any need to remain a surrealist

Art cannot without disqualifying itself agree to submit to any outside orders

Or humbly fill the ranks, which some would like to assign to it in the interests of short-term pragmatic ends

You will only transform man's condition if you take into account his subjective needs as well as his material ones

If you ignore them then communism will only create new forms of alienation

what we want is a

proletarian art that will describe proletarian life and proletarian aspirations

Bourgeois culture is dying

It is the artists job to help lead the workers towards a new popular art that will emerge with the liberation of the masses

But you are asking the impossible

How can a bourgeois artist be anything but inept at translating the workers aspirations?

Trotsky has already argued that it is pointless to contrast

proletarian and bourgeois culture in the pre-revolutionary period

To the extent that a culture is proletarian it is not yet a culture

To the extent that there is a culture

It is not yet

proletarian but look at your pasts

your comrade Monsieur Eragon recently referred to the Russian Revolution as have a

ministerial crisis and made silly jokes about Dadar in Moscow

You've taken a very sharp turns in then haven't you?

Why should we believe that your present view of the revolution is your real one and look at your backgrounds your?

Outrages of literary parties don't impress the workers they see you as the spoiled children of Cafe Society

Yes, it's true. We are asking to join your ranks in order to totally dissociate ourselves from the class we come from

But this is not as you suggest one more

provocation

We are far too conscious of the way bourgeois society tames its rebels

Savoring the poison and calling it

entertainment or

avant-garde

Fourt art even spiritual revolt can be reduced to a commodity

We can only avoid assimilation by writing hermetically by not making ourselves obvious to every

department store shop assistant

Mystery is frightening

only the

unclassifiable the indefinable is disconcerting and

Can be used to shake the complacency of the bourgeoisie, but think about whom you attract?

It's the bourgeoisie who left up your scandals

Your bless famiy is an erotic outrages only charm the jaded palate of the anarchist set amongst the aristocracy

Don't you see that since your works are appropriated and misinterpreted

It is necessary first to make a social revolution

after that you can think about heretic authenticity

To be anxious for such luxuries now is simply a diversion it encourages. Hope where there is none

No, I cannot accept that

Of course we regret the public treatment of our work

Of course we do not wish for their patronage

Perhaps it is true that we are wild beasts in a cage, but that does not make us wild beasts any the less

You seem to be saying on the one hand that we should create propaganda for immediate consumption by the masses

Against this we say that any revolutionary message that is embodied in a conservative form

cannot have a revolutionary effect and on the other hand you demand that the mind and

Imagination must abdicate until the revolution has been accomplished

And against this we would say that

Even if our work does not immediately help to precipitate the revolution

The job of interpreting man's condition is indispensable to building the post-revolutionary world

Every mistake in the interpretation of man

Involves a mistake in understanding the universe and becomes an obstacle to its transformation

In hannover kurt schwitters concept of MEPs has taken over his entire house, which becomes a constantly evolving Nertz building

Schwitters continues to create mets magazines mets collages and myths poetry

Pppp. Cyka, cyka, cyka, cyka

Children

long

for good

To you you to you how to you you to you?

to you

to you to you

to you

to you in you to you I

Gue

Good photo, okay, oka, oka?

You either give East and dammit these are stowed sir inherently hos Stanovich demo

in Munich Adolf Hitler opens the National Socialist Museum of pure Aryan art

In Berlin johnhart fields photomontages have evolved out of Dada into a powerful weapon of anti-nazi propaganda

the meaning of the Hitler salute

millions stand behind me

Through light towards night

Goering the butcher of the Third Reich

War and corpses always the hope of the rich

Madrid 1936

What the Angels received as Christmas presents a

Doll for Superman he swallows gold and spout junk

In Paris the surrealist groups summoned Salvador Dali to justify his obsessive interest in Hitler

Unfortunately, I forgotten most of the details of this very peculiar meeting, but I was suffering from the beginnings of a sore throat

Therefore I attended with a thermometer in my mouth

and I took my temperature several times during my trial which lasted far into the night I

Knelt down several times to exhort Breton to understand that my obsession with Hitler was strictly paranoid and essentially apolitical

I

Explained that I could not be a Nazi

because if Hitler conquered Europe he would seize the opportunity to do away with all hysterical characters such as myself as

he had already done in Germany by calling them DeGeneres I

pointed out that the feminine and irresistible silly role that I attributed to Hitler would be sufficient to classify me as an

iconoclast in the eyes of the Nazis

similarly my fanaticism

aggravated by Freud and Einstein

both of them expelled from Germany by Hitler made it obvious that Hitler interested me only as an object of my delirium and

because he seemed to me of

Incomparable catastrophic value in the end they were convinced of my innocence

But still I had to sign a document in which I declared my not to be an enemy of the proletariat

Assigned without any qualms since I have never had any feelings either for or against the proletariat

1938 man-ray photographs the mannequins created by the surrealist group for their Paris exhibition

This is the last surrealist event before the outbreak of war

1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London a refugee from the Nazis

Salvador Dali pays him a visit

Until now I had been inclined to regard the Surrealists who apparently have adopted me as their patron saint his complete fools

But that young Spaniard with his fanatic lies and undeniable technical mastery made me revise my opinion

In the pictures of the Masters of angler or Leonardo that which interests me is precisely the search for the unconscious idea

Dali's mystery is manifested outright the picture is but a mechanism to reveal itself

Mexica is about the only land that will have him so here

He is Trotsky landing at M pica with his wife

Once Lenin's partner and commander of the Red Army he's dodged about from country to country and one after another the men on trial in

Moscow confess that they've been plotting under his direction the Trotsky himself finds a refuge

after the collapse of his alliance with the Communist Party Gretl travels to Mexico and meets Trotsky together they write a

manifesto and make plans for a federation of independent

Revolutionary artists in art man expresses his need for harmony and a full existence which class

Society constantly denies him that is why there is always implied a conscious or unconscious active or passive

optimistic or pessimistic

protest against reality in any authentic artistic creation

Art can be the revolutions great Ally only insofar as it remains true to itself

The federation is short-lived by 1940 Trotsky has been murdered and many of the Surrealists have fled from the German invasion

these artists in exile in New York include Andre, Breton

Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Salvador Dali Yves Tanguy and Andre muscle

During these years Max Ernst paints a series of visionary landscapes

While a surrealist work in America many of their former colleagues have joined the French resistance

Forces of the French underground swarm against the Nazi and fight behind barricades as the Parisian masses have fought in many an insurrection

Patriot fighters plays away at German roots and buildings. They're shooting everywhere

children hurried across a street to safety out of a bullet swept area

scenes of the Paris uprising filmed by a French newsreel cameraman attached to the Patriot forces a

Wounded French Negro of the underground fighting

There's a German soldier there shooting at him with terrifying realism this start automatic motion picture film

shows the death of a Nazi killed by Patriot Gunners a

woman takes his gun

Even the prawns without rings from every throw big old symbol of free France and

resurgent Paris cheers to the strains of the Marcie a

19:46

Andre Breton returns to a hostile Paris the committed writers who have fought against the Nazis regards surrealism with scorn

Jean-paul Sartre writes the originality of surrealism lies in its attempt to appropriate everything metaphysics

They are a stock recei parasitism

Alliances with revolutionary groups the fact is that when the time for action came none of them were prepared to act

some of them kill themselves

Others are in exile

There's a remain are in exile amongst us

Tristan Tzara is now a member of the Communist Party and a veteran of the French Resistance

Where is surrealism today?

And how can it justify itself historically when we know that during the occupation it has been absent from this war

absent from our hearts and from our actions

The sole voice of surrealism able to appear freely during the war was a luxurious magazine published in New York

It did not contain the slightest mention of the Nazi occupation or of those who had other concerns than the playing of harmless

surrealist games

History has passed so realism by

Jean art is not impressed by the political commitments of his former Dada colleagues

Some old friends of mine from the days of Dada who always fought for dreams and freedom there now

disgustingly preoccupied with class aims and a busy turning the Hegelian dialectic into a hurdy-gurdy to

Conscientiously they mix poetry and the five-year plan in one pot

But man will not allow himself to be transformed into a scrubbed hygienic numeral

It is hard to imagine how the greatest individual lists can come out for a termite State

Be be be be be oh

Hey hey hey hey hey

Kurt schwitters has fled from germany to Norway from Norway to England after the war he moves to the lake district

creating Nets collages out of English materials

In a barn near Lake Windermere schwitters begins work on a new maths building although he is ill and impoverished

1948 couch fitters dies with one wall nearly completed

Dada had Khalid

Who had

Shown two sentences and lived certain dessert when did side count

We hadn't be a goner on Florida. She in scrap tagging

1954 Max Ernst is awarded the painting prize at the Venice, Biennale when he accepts it. He is expelled from the surrealist group

Seeing means usually you open your eyes, and you looked at out sad world

You can see in other way you close your eyes, and you looked in to your inner

And

I believe the best to do is to have one eye closed, and you look inside and this is TNI

With the other eye you have it fixed on reality. What is going on around in the world

if you can make a kind of a synthesis of

These two important worlds you come to a result

Which can be considered as the synthesis of

Objective and subjective life

In a way, and the outer world brought together to make me revolution in a painter and when I paint I feel absolutely free

One big danger is that you lose your mind you?

madness is always in the background and menaces you I

was born with a very strong feeling of freedom liberty

That means also with a very strong feeling of revolt

Revolt in revolution is not the same thing, but when people are born into a period they are so many

Events invite you to get revolted and

Threw over what is going on in the world and be disgusted with it so on

It is absolute natural that

Rock, you'll produce is a revolution in rock

Salvador Dali is written out of the surrealist movement by Andre Breton

His undertaking was spoiled by his ultra retrograde technique and discredited by a cynical indifference to the means which he used to advertise

himself

He has shown signs of panic and has only been able to save appearances through a scheme of deliberate vulgar ization

By now his work has become engulfed in

Academics ISM which claims on its own authority to be classicism and which in any case has no interest whatever force or realism

dolly remains unrepentant I

Am NOT a surrealist I am surrealism

The trouble with interviewing Salvador Dali is that he talks with everything at once including the radar whiskers, which locate his ideas

The Madonna of portly gut is in the new style

Romantic mysticism da recalls it if the meaning is obscure. There's no doubt about his brilliant drawing and color work

15,000 amateurs

Most impressive of all is dahlias crucifixion

After the war Andre Breton has parted company with many of his former friends

he displays less interest in politics or psychology and

His final attempt to reconcile dream with reality lies in the art of magic

In spite of all reservations one may have as to its principles the occult is

extremely interesting in that it maintains in a dynamic state the infinite system of

correspondences that lies at man's disposal

giving him the key to relations which are capable of linking objects apparently unconnected and

partially uncovering the mechanism of universal symbolism

In Brussels Rene Magritte continues to paint in his prosaic style

The other day someone asked me what the relationship was between my life, and my art I

Couldn't really think of any

accept that life obliges me to do something so I paint I

do not believe that man decides anything either the future or the present of humanity a

Universe of chance, I don't know

unknown forces I hate talking about that because he doesn't mean anything like talking about symbols I

Think we are responsible for the universe, but this does not mean that we decide anything

cause and effect

That's determinism and there again one would have to believe in it

If one is a determinist one must always believe that there is a cause which produces the same effect

I am NOT a determinist, but I don't believe in chance either

It serves a still another explanation of the world

the problem lies precisely in not accepting any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism I

Am NOT responsible for my belief. It is not even I who decides that I am NOT responsible and so on to infinity

I'm obliged not to believe

There is no point of departure

Brittle remains fiercely hostile to the way in which surrealism is increasingly debased to describe any work that seems weird or fantastic

Quasimodo's, so

Well

Asshole Adolf Hitler under Ginny's

I hear they're ready for us now at the start of the main raised this afternoon

So let's go right away and join Peter at the start. Well. They're under starter's orders for this very valuable Queen Victoria handicap

First offense

1966 Andre Breton dies

There is every reason to believe that there exists a certain point in the mind at which life and death real and imaginary

past and future

Communicable and in communicable high and low ceased to be perceived in terms of contradiction

On the death of his friend Andre brittle muscle. Do tional says I have never known a man who had a greater capacity for love

Berto loved like a heartbeats

And you cannot understand anything about his hatreds if you don't realize he acted in this way to protect his love for life

for the marvelous in life

He was the lover of love in a world that believes in prostitution

During the 1960's marcel duchamp work attracts the attention of younger artists

And he is described as the most radical thinker of modern art with an influence which is rivaled only by Picasso's

Major retrospective exhibitions of dashon's work are organized

Since many of his early works have been lost

Replicas multiple editions of them are made the large glass has been cracked, but two reproductions are constructed

What you were also attempting to do as I understand it was to

Devalue the art as an object simply by saying if I say it's a work of art. That makes it a work of art

Yeah, but a word work of art. You see is not so

Important for me. I don't care about the word art because it's been so

You know

Discredited in some oil so I already want to get rid of it

because the way many people today have done away with religion and

I've been in it all the time and still want to get rid of it you see and I cannot explain all I

Everything I do because I do things were why people do things and don't know why they do it. You know you see

the Antioch movement of Dada in fact was proved to be in the interest of art because it regenerated and

Revived and freshened people's attitude to it yes

Do you in fact anticipate that your own contribution when the final reckoning comes will have in fact?

Contributed to something called, art. I did in spite of myself if you wish to say

But I'm sorry in other words

I would I would like but at the same time if I did I had done it I would completely have been

Not even nervous, so people would haven't said anything you all right no

they probably a hundred people like that who have given up on and

Condemned it and prove to themselves it wasn't

necessary no more than religion so forth and who cares for them nobody never knew but in terms of the the

activities of the of the Dada group other than painting

The sort of happenings that they devise are in fact happening again. They are called happenings today

do you ever see or engage in these or the point that they've brought out so well an

interesting one is they play for you a

play of

boredom

It has been I'm not discovering that but it's very interesting to have used boredom as a name

Aim to

to attract the public in other word the public comes to are happening not to be amused to be bored and

that's quite an invention by the

Contribution to a new ideas isn't it when you set out to

Challenge all the established values your your means were shocked you shocked the Cubist you shocked the public you shut the buying public

Do you think the public can be shocked anymore by anything is finish finish? That's that's over you cannot shock a public

You regret the loss of shock, or do you think it's really the artists fault, but in fact the panel simply always expected no

But the shock would be of a different

Way a different

character

You see by shrugging at that time tracking alongside the old

channel speak

But the probably the shock will come of something entirely different

as I said no, not a nod to say and I AR t

See with that

No, no no art at all and yet something would be produced because after all I think the word art from

Italy magically means to do

not even to make but to do you say and

With minute you do something you are an artist in other word that you are not

So you don't sell your work that you do the action in other well art is

Means action in the activity of any kind

everyone anyway everyone

But we've now society has decided to make a group that be called artists a group

Doctors and so far which is purely artificial. You said you said in the twenties you proclaimed art

Is dead it isn't a suit. Yeah, well. That's what I meant by that you see I meant

That it's dead by the fact that instead of being singular

In a tea in little box like that so many artists in so many

squares

feet

By the fact it would be

Universal it would be a human a human

Factor in anyone's life to be an artist but not noticed as an artist you see what I mean in the event

Resolution, thank you very much. Well. I'm delighted

1968 Marcel Duchamp dies at his own request his grave carries the inscription

Anyway, it's always other people who die

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