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> From: R.Gancie/C.Parcelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
. 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.
>
I've been reading Flight Out of Time lately myself. There was the war and
then there was the tremendous difficulty, for Ball, of surviving the weight
of life itself. You're right, humor did not seem to be the driving force
behind his practice.
AK
