CONE ZERO
dada
posted Friday, 11 April 2008
Is Dada the most important Art Movement? Dada - if you read the manifestos from the early 20th century - seems to be the the most comfortable home for the Horror Arts. In that death and its causes or repercussions can be embroidered at will with no fear of comeback. But a fear that is real inasmuch as literature or art is real. The only way. Otherwise, it is Nothing. Zero.
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"From the cosmic point of view, to have opinions or preferences at all is to be ill." --Lawrence Durrell |
"Death is a thoroughly Dadaist business, in that it signifies nothing at all." - Richard Huelsenbeck (1919) ================== Me: It's just that, objectively, without recourse to possible 'intentions', the Horror Art concerned with Death, Pointlessness, Nihilism, Puppets, Dolls, Corpses, Clowns (in up front representation rather than subtler surrealification) is more akin to Dada than any other art movement. ================== The Dadaist loves the extraordinary, the absurd, even. He knows that life asserts itself in contradictions, and that his age, more than any preceding it, aims at the destruction of all generous impulses. Every kind of mask is therefore welcome to him, every play at hide and seek in which there is an inherent power of deception. The direct and the primitive appear to him in the midst of this huge anti-nature, as being the supernatural itself. --Hugo Ball, 'Dada Fragments' ( ======= Cf Ligotti? ====== ) EDIT: Two parallel threads on Dada and Horror here: ================= |
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