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Friday, July 15, 2016

Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What?

"Dada is often viewed as Western culture’s autoimmune response to the cancer of World War I, and that’s so. An aesthetic impulse, it sent antibodies into what was left of a ruined 19th-century moral system, and gave those antibodies names: antiwar, anti-empire, anticapitalism, anti-authority, anti-logic, antinormality. But before Dada there was already a force of healthy resistance in play, and it too had a name: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven."
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