[artinfo] Re: Zurich presents Dada East,
The Romanians of CabaretVoltaire
Gordana Novakovic
gordana.novakovic at btopenworld.com
Sun Sep 24 19:30:42 CEST 2006
>However, the [Dada] developments in Eastern Europe have
>gained only very little attention.
seems no mention of Zenitism, recognised as the only - shall I say
genuinely non-Western Dada movement? - however with regular
contributions for their magazine by the leading Dada figures, and
closely linked to the international Dada circles:
"....1921 The avant-garde "Zenitism" movement is founded by Ljubomir
Micic (1895-1971). Western European culture is spiritually bankrupt,
according to Micic, but Zenitism, the embodiment of the Balkan
"barbaro-genius," will revitalize it. The group's manifesto is
published in its magazine Zenit (Zenith), which, despite Micic's
insistence on the superiority of "Balkanization," routinely
reproduces work by Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists, and
Expressionists...."
from:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/eusb/ht11eusb.htm
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadaist%20texts/micic.htm
(The University of Iowa libraries)
best
Gordana
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