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Tristan Tzara , Dada and
Surrealism
By, Michael E. Moats
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2. Tristan Tzara (born
Samuel or Samy
Rosenstock, a.ka. S.
Samyro; April 16 1896, in
Romania
Born into a Jewish family,
his 1st language was
probably Yiddish, his
second Romanian, and his
adopted language French.
In fact the majority of his
work was written in
French.
Having been sent away
to boarding school at 11,
he actually started his
writing career with the
magazine Simbolul, under
the direction of Adrian
Maniu, when he was 16.
Dada 1, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, July 1917), cover, and Dada 2, ed.
(PoemHunter.com) Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1917), cover. (Hoffman)
3. So Tzara was a major
―president‖ in Dada, the
movement to end all
movements, in reaction to that
War to end all wars, WWI or the
Great War.
Avant-garde poet, essayist
and performance artist. Also
active as a journalist,
playwright, literary and art
critic, composer and film
director (Hoffman)
So Tzara collaborated with
other Romanian Jews —
notably Marcel and Georges
Janco to start the Dadaist
movement. (Sanderson)
Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich,
December 1918), cover. (Hoffman)
4. During WWI, Tzara joined Marcel
Janco in Switzerland at the Cabaret
Voltaire and performed drama,
recited his poetry and his Dadaist
manifestos.
Though nobody knows where the
term comes from, some say Dada
―in French it means ‗hobby horse.‘
In German it means ‗good-bye,‘ ‗Get
off my back,‘ ‗Be seeing you
sometime.‘ In Romanian: ‗Yes,
indeed, you are right, that's
it.‖ (Spencer) Dada 3, ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, December 1918).
(Hoffman)
5. From Dada Manifesto
Dadaist Disgust (KennethDouglas)
Dada 4–5 (Anthologie Dada), ed. Tristan Tzara (Zurich, May
1919), cover. (Hoffman)
6. •In Zürich, Tzara met many writers and artist who would later found the Dadaist movement. Among these were Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy Hennings, who ren
whoent
The Troupe in Zürich
Hugo Ball and his wife
Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp,
Arthur Segal, Otto Van
Rees, Max Oppenheimer,
Marcel Janco, Richard
Huelsenbeck, and Marcel
Stodki. (Gullette)
Though the movement
began as a literary venue,
it quickly moved to
performance and visual
arts movement. (Sayre)
Der Dada 3, ed. Raoul Hausmann (Berlin, April 1920), cover.
(Hoffman)
7. Many authors, and
artists from France,
Germany, and Italy joined
the movement.
Eventually, artists from
the United States joined
the fray. (Hartt)
391 2, ed. Francis Picabia (Barcelona, February 10, 1917), cover.
(Hoffman)
8. From France, it was Marcel
Duchamp who led the
movement with his
outrageous paintings and
sculptures.
← In this
painting,
Marcel
Duchamp
integrates
the Cubist
to the
Futurists
in a brave
Dadaist
way.
Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 (Swanson) The Blind Man 1, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri-
Pierre Roché (New York, April 10, 1917), cover. (Hoffman)
9. → The photo to the left
shows Duchamp‘s
readymade sculpture of a
urinal, which he aptly
called Fountain. (Hoffman)
he Blind Man 2, eds. Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and
Henri-Pierre Roché (New York, May 1917), pp. 2–3. (Hoffman)
10. IIn 1918, Francis Picabia,
and Marcel Duchamp, from
France, and Man Ray from
the U.S., formed the Nihilist
offshoot from Dada.
This movement was
extreme Dada, Nihilism is
―the belief that all values
are baseless and that
nothing can be known or Neozubair.worldpress.com
communicated. It is often
associated with extreme
pessimism and a
radical skepticism that
condemns existence. A true
nihilist would believe in
nothing, have no loyalties,
and no purpose other than,
perhaps, an impulse to
destroy.‖ (Pratt) www.niilists.net
11. Dada in Paris, 1920
With: Louis Aragon,
Breton, and Ribemont-
Dessaignes, Arp and
Tzara from Zurich, Man
Ray and Picabia from
New York, and Max Ernst
from Cologne. (Sayre) ,
(Hoffman) & (ArtHistory.net)
Dada 6 (Bulletin Dada), ed. Tristan Tzara (Paris, February
1920), cover. (Hoffman)
12. Dadaism eventually
evolved into Surrealism.
André Breton led the
charge and change to
surrealism. (Hoffman) but second
sourced fro Breton‘s Manifeste du surrealisme
Minotaure 10, ed. Albert Skira (Paris, Winter 1937), cover
(Hofman).
13. Though the
Surrealist movement
began as a literary
genre, it too quickly
evolved into a visual
art movement.
To name a few:
André Breton,
Salvador Dalí, Giorgio
de Chirico, Robert
Desnos, Marcel
Duchamp, and Michel
Leiris.
We should also add
the Ultraistas like
Jorge Luis Borges.
(Hoffman), (Pratt) & (Spenser)
La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton (Paris,
December 15, 1929), cover. (Hoffman)
14. I wrote this tribute to Dalí and his expressed
philosophy of Gastro Esthetic Cannibalism when I
was 18:
To Dalí or ―Gastro Aesthetic Cannibalism‖
Munching on fingers,
I assimilate,
osmosize sculpture art;
grace metaphors.
Those moths—not butterflies in stomach,
feed on each other,
death-head victor,
rends gastric-walls
in carnivore –jaws.
Lust tastes, wants and screams insatiably –more!
more!
That wind, of hate, hungers for our warmth,
gnaws at corners of cloth-skins,
and sins.
Beauty-day consumes beast-ugly-night, (Salvidordalipaintings.blogspot.com)
and moon that sun
and we that son of God?
My favorite surrealist artist is
Tears and rivers erode
-bits of wealth-
Salvador Dalí and this painting is
from Earth and brow; called The Persistence of Memory
(both being faces and planets)
leaving—only
rotting fearsome stench
and time.
Life in lark exaltation, death in black-raven shriek
-‖cosmic orality‖-
consuming all.
15. .
Poems from Borges
Lluvia
Bruscamente la tarde se ha
Rain
aclarado
The afternoon has brightened up at last
Porque ya cae la lluvia minuciosa.
For rain is falling, sudden and minute.
Cae o cayó. La lluvia es una cosa
Falling or fallen. There is no dispute:
Que sin duda sucede en el pasado.
Rain is a thing that happens in the past.
Quien la oye caer ha recobrado
Who hears it fall retrieves a time that fled
El tiempo en que la suerte
When an uncanny windfall could disclose
venturosa
To him a flower by the name of rose
Le reveló una flor llamada rosa
And the perplexing redness of its red.
Y el curioso color del colorado.
Falling until it blinds each windowpane
Esta lluvia que ciega los cristales
Out in a lost suburbia this rain
Alegrará en perdidos arrabales
Shall liven black grapes on a vine inside
Las negras uvas de una parra en
cierto
A certain patio that is no more.
A longed-awaited voice through the
Patio que ya no existe. La mojada
downpour
Tarde me trae la voz, la voz
deseada, Is from my father. He has never died. . (A. Z.
De mi padre que vuelve y que no ha Forman)
muerto. (A. Z. Forman)
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