We are indebted to Tristan Tzara and his followers for the newest

and perhaps the most important doctrinary insistence as applied to art

which has appeared in a long time. Dada-ism is the latest phase of

modernism in painting as well as in literature, and carries with it all

the passion for freedom of expression which Marinetti sponsored so

loudly in his futuristic manifestos. It adds likewise an exhilarating

quality of nihilism, imbibed, as it is said, directly from the author

of Zarathustra. Reading a fragment of the documentary statement of

Dada-ism, we find that the charm of the idea exists mainly in the fact

that they wish all things levelled in the mind of man to the degree of

commonplaceness which is typical and peculiar to it.

--Marsden Hartley, 1921

 

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