CUST 1510H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marcel Janco, Tabula Rasa, Hugo Ball

• School: Trent University
• Department: Cultural Studies
• Course: CUST 1510H
• Professor: Junyk Ihor

Document Summary

Dada: radical avant-garde movement, begins at the cabaret voltaire in zurich (in neutral switzerland, hugo ball recites the first dada manifesto on july 14, 1916. We would begin again after the tabula rasa. Naturalistic explanation which is supposed to represent the halo. Ca(cid:374)"t see fa(cid:272)e so the(cid:455) are prese(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g their (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455) The(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t look like soldiers or hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs. Crumbling and collapse of an organic whole of society. The dada manifestoes: (cid:862)dada (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g(cid:863) - p. 77. It"s about nonsense and a silly word: on the other had dada stands for negation and force that confronts and tears down society and its positive values, non sense, irrational form. Dada and meaninglessness: (cid:862)take a good look at me. / i am an idiot, i am a clown, i am a faker. / i a(cid:373) ugl(cid:455), (cid:373)(cid:455) fa(cid:272)e has (cid:374)o e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374), i a(cid:373) little.