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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not exactly the same edition I have but close enuf. Tzara was, of course, a primary dadaist & surrealist, etc. The dadaists were, IMO, much more interesting than the surrealists as writers. So READ THIS. It saddened me when I learned that when Tzara died his library was auctioned off. I mean, didn't he have any friends to will it to? Or whatever? Just think of how incredible his library must've been. ( ) I always found Tristan Tzara pretty interesting, if not a little crazy. But then, many of my favorite artists and writers have bordered on crazy (Burroughs, Bukowski, Dali, etc.) -- it's a matter of perception. Regardless, this is certainly one of the more important works in the field over the past century or so and those who study Dadaism, as well as later offshoots, would do well to read this book. Recommended. Anyone who is looking for unbiased inspiration need look no further than this. Probably the most unbiased polemic I have ever read. Truly inspiring. Dada, as is explained, is without definition. It is the creative drive in the moment before the creation itself. The best summary of this manifesto is written in the book when Tzara proclaims: "I am against systems; the most acceptable system is that of having none on no principle." Dada (and art) isn't about doing something right, but in not doing yourself wrong. no reviews | add a review
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This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. In addition, this volume also contains Tzara's Lampisteries - articles that throw light on various art forms contemporary with his own work, at a time when art, weary of the old certainties, turned into subjective and often abstract forms, favouring the reality of the mind over that of the senses. No library descriptions found. |
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