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November 1 through 13, 2016

San Francisco, California

 

Presented by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

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Cover page


November 1 through 13, 2016

San Francisco, California

 

Presented by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

 
 
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Hans-Arp


 

“Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.”

-Hans Arp

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Hans-Arp


 

“Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.”

-Hans Arp

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Tristan-Tzara


“Dada doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease: selfkleptomania, man's normal condition, is Dada. But the real dada's are against Dada.”

-Tristan Tzara

Tristan-Tzara


“Dada doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease: selfkleptomania, man's normal condition, is Dada. But the real dada's are against Dada.”

-Tristan Tzara

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Theo van Doesburg


“Dada is able to mobilize the optical and dimensional static viewpoint which keeps us imprisoned in our [three-dimensional] illusions. Thus it became possible to perceive the entire prism of the world instead of just one facet at a time. In this connection Dada is one of the strongest manifestations of the fourth dimension, transposed onto the subject.. .Dada is 'yes-no, a bird on four legs, a ladder without steps, a square without angels'. Dada possesses as many positives as negatives. To think that Dada simply means destruction is to misunderstand life, of which Dada is the expression.”

-Theo van Doesburg

 

Theo van Doesburg


“Dada is able to mobilize the optical and dimensional static viewpoint which keeps us imprisoned in our [three-dimensional] illusions. Thus it became possible to perceive the entire prism of the world instead of just one facet at a time. In this connection Dada is one of the strongest manifestations of the fourth dimension, transposed onto the subject.. .Dada is 'yes-no, a bird on four legs, a ladder without steps, a square without angels'. Dada possesses as many positives as negatives. To think that Dada simply means destruction is to misunderstand life, of which Dada is the expression.”

-Theo van Doesburg

 

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Hans Arp


“Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.”

-Hans Arp

Hans Arp


“Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.”

-Hans Arp

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Man Ray


“Dada is a 'state of mind'. “

-Man Ray

Man Ray


“Dada is a 'state of mind'. “

-Man Ray

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