From: Tom B Whiteside (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 10:24:02 PDT
>In Paris Dada remained chaotic, but young upstart poet Breton soon got
>involved and took over, kicked out the rogue elements (Tzara and
>Picabia) and embraced Communism and Psychoanalysis and changed the name
>to Surrealism.
Or maybe the other way around - Breton was the one kicked out. Didn't he
get his arm broken at The Evening of the Bearded Heart in Paris summer of
1923? That was the night Man Ray premiered his first film, Return to
Reason - I think the art historical shorthand marks that night as the
beginning of Surrealism's break from Dada.
Ah, to be physically fighting with other artists in front of the backdrop
of films made without cameras - we just don't have enough face-to-face (or
fist-to-nose) contact anymore. Of course in Cellini's day it was
swordplay...
- Whiteside
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