Avant Garde Movements Dada
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How did Dada privilege originality and reject repitition
- by adding the element of chance. Hans Arp's collages were made by dropping torn up bits of paper on to a large sheet then sticking them where they fell.
- by constantly changing the things they did - Duchamp went from ready mades to Rrose Selavy to the large glass.
- by making art ephemeral - performance art at the Cafe voltaire.
Dada and Burgers six criteria. Did Dada reject the autonomy of Art?
Dada was anti art. ' the anti, anti, anti' Hans Arp. Art was anything and it could take place anywhere but its purpose was not to be Art but to be a manifestation of the dadaist spirit.
Did the situationist reject the Institution of ART
Picture- still from Guy de Bord film
Absolutely. De Bord came up with theory of the sepctacl: Art was the specatacle that kept the publisc happy and content. And passive.
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How did Dada try to change the world politically and/or socially
As a movement Dada was always political but the politics changed. The early dadist were anti-war ( first world war) anarchists. Berlin Dadaist as exemplified in John Heatfields photomontage Adolf the Superman.
The Dada way to create social change was tp provoke it. The Dadaist held demonstrations and perfomances where the audience threw things at the, Duchamp's urinal is an example - I threw the bottle rack and the urinal in their face to provoke them.
Did the situationists reject the autonomy of art.?
Picutre still from a film by Guy de Bord.
Abolutely. They were followed the ideas of Lefbvre in his Critique of Everyday life ( courses text) chief theoris guy debord Guy de Bord, the, was determined that art belonged in every day life
How did Dada change the space the artists work with
- By increasing the media strsist work with, collages, ready made, performance art
- By bringing art into the street - through posters - and the street into art - through ready mades.
- By creating their own art spaces such as the Cafe Voltaire and the first dada Art fair in Berlin. See photo.
How did the Dadaists change the role of the artists
- by allowing artists to do anything, sing, dance write poetry, stick a urinal in a gallery
- by allowing anyone to be an artist - R Mutt
- by playing with alter egos and the idea of artists as art work
- by having the artist as shaman
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