[Leica] Ecriture Automatique Is Kind of What They Had In Mind

[timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)]

Republicans, Dadaists Declare War On Art:


N.C. Senator Jesse Helms and Dadaist Tristan Tzara issue a joint statement.
WASHINGTON, DC--Citing the "proliferation of immoral and offensive material
throughout America's museums and schools," and waving placards emblazoned
with agit-prop fotocollage reading, "diE KUnst ISt tOT, DadA ubEr aLLes"
("Art is dead, dada over all"), a coalition of leading Republican
congressional conservatives and early 20th-century Dadaists declared war on
art in a joint press conference Monday.

"Homosexuals and depraved people of every stripe are receiving federal
monies at taxpayer expense for the worst kind of filth imaginable," said
U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), a longtime NEA critic.

 Dadaist Jean Arp agreed. "Dada is, like nature, without meaning. Dada is
for nature and against art," he said.

 Added nonsense-poet Hugo Ball, founder of Zurich's famed Cabaret Voltaire:
"...'dada' ('Dada'). Adad Dada Dada Dada." Donning an elaborate, primitivist
painted paper mask, he then engaged reporters in a tragico-absurd dance,
contorting wildly while bellowing inanities.....

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