Rosalie & Heiko
If you read Flight Out of Time you'll see the deeply spiritual feeling out of which
Dada in Zurich (at least Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings) grew. And when it was over, Ball
being very religious lost his mind.
RA
"R.Gancie/C.Parcelli" wrote:
> Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> >
> > > As a joke Dada is definitely NOT overrated. Some Dada on the other hand was dead
> > > serious,
> > > like Berlin Dada.
> >
>
> I'd always been taught, too, to view Dada as the work of hip pranksters
> who were always on the lookout for a joke. I was startled when I
> finally read Hugo Ball's Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary. I was
> surprised at the depth of sadness directly involved in the movement over
> the war. Somehow the museums and art history books had removed the
> enormity of World War I right out of the discussion.
>
> And Luis Bunuel said that for him, Surrealism was 'above all, a moral
> movement'. That element too gets lost in contemporary discussions of
> Surrealism.
>
> Rosalie Gancie
