VIC343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marionette, Photogram, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
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A group of individuals who tried to shape language that didn"t make sense or logical structure. What kind of art can we regenerate humanly. How to do an dada exhibition - many doorways so not navigating in order for viewing but moving around like a pinball machine disrupt traditional order. When reached america the format and paper was standard art form & material. Bc once it was already exhibited preach to the converted. Don"t have to do it anymore: we are seeing very cleaned up versions of these dada work. From philosopher nietzsche- changing european values from ground up. Set new values from dada point of view. Created a new photographic art which emphasized chance effects and surprising juxtaposition. produced photograms he called rayographs photographic image made without a camera. Revealed a new way of seeing images neg shadow image shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparent of objects used.