Jacques Rigaut

Suicide on the 'lunatic fringe'. A subject dear to my wrists. & arms. & legs. I always hope that the most talented, the most sensitive, will make it & live a long & happy life. But sometimes the odds seem against it. Esp as the robopathic society supresses the individual more & more. Here are 4 who gave the big fuck-you to what passes as 'life'.

I really enjoyed this collection. The biographies at the start of each section are fantastic, drawing from personal accounts of subsequent writers of that time. Although some of the "anti-art" pieces begin to lose their effect when drawn out for too long, the euphorisms of torma and fragments from Rigaut are brilliant. Even though I love Tzara these men are important to read to really feel Dada before it became the secularized (and thus self defeating) image that it gets portrayed as show more retrospectively. show less