Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358) - Softcover

Tzara, Tristan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714537624 ISBN 13: 9780714537627

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Tristan Tzara?poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst?was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic?which often uses dadaist typography?as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.

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Tristan Tzara was like me, like Socrates, like Chateaubriand, a very small, fat and very ugly man, but with incredible charm! -- Fernando Arrabal

About the Author

Tristan Tzara was the founder of the Dada movement which began in Zürich during the First World War. Poet, literary iconoclast and catalyst, his ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714537624
• ISBN 13: 9780714537627
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Picabia Francis
• Number of pages: 128