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The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another. Dada thought that reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war, so the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and irrationality. However, this could also be thought of as the logical side of anarchy and rejection of values and order; it is not irrational to embrace the systematic destruction of values, if one thinks them to be flawed. According to its proponents, Dada was not art – it was “anti-art”. It was anti-art in the sense that Dadaists protested against the contemporary academic and cultured values of art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning – interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. Ironically, Dada became an influential movement in modern art, a commentary on order and the carnage Dadaists believed it wreaked. Through their rejection of traditional culture …
Wie der Krieg um neue Märkte als Friedenseinsatz gegen den “internationalen Terrorismus” verkauft wird. MAoS – The Modern Art of Slavery. http//www.maos.dyndns.org
From KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS Producer Patrick Murphy explores the modern art exhibit called Water at the Pulitzer Foundation. It deals with issues of drowning, and requiring the viewers imagination to make a connection between the work and title.
Tolle Aufführung – THE MODERN ART OF CIRCUS – Beeindruckend – Der Puls rast schneller, wenn Menschen durch die Luft wirbeln, dass man an der Schwerkraft zweifeln kann. Hoch unter der Zirkuskuppel vollführen Artisten so verwegene Manöver, dass einem der Atem stocken will. Unten in der Manege hingegen, kommt man aus dem Staunen nicht mehr heraus. Aufgenommen in Aschaffenburg 18.10.2009 – Ein HD-Video aufgenommen mit der Lumix TZ7