Dada
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Ideal, ideal, ideal,
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge,
Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom,
#OTD 31 May 1978, Dadaist, artist, co-creator of photomontage Hannah Höch died in Berlin.
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#OTD 30 May 1920: Publication of Les Champs Magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.
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New(ish) from Standard Ebooks:
A free and #PublicDomain collection of Mina Loy's poetry:
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Poetry, by Mina Loy - Free ebook download
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Poetry: A collection of poems by Mina Loy.
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The Bauhaus Nazis: the collaborators – and worse – among the design icons
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The Bauhaus Nazis: the collaborators – and worse – among the design icons
They were seen as heroes and martyrs who defied the Nazis. But a new show in Weimar reveals horrifying details about some Bauhauslers, one of whom designed the crematoriums at Auschwitz
www.theguardian.com
Born #OTD May 1st, 1885.
The Belgian Dadaist Clément Pansaers
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Coming in June:
Hannah Höch at the Belvedere #Vienna
www.belvedere.at/en/hannah-hoch
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Hannah Höch | Belvedere Museum Vienna
For the first time in Austria, a major museum retrospective will celebrate the work of the German Dada artist Hannah Höch (1889–1978).
www.belvedere.at
#OTD in #Barcelona in #1916
Arthur Cravan 'fights' (and is roundly defeated by) world boxing champion Jack Johnson:
"A pursuit of material reward rather than sporting glory, it found Cravan spending much of the fight in immobilised terror."
strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/c...
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Cravan vs. Johnson
"If there is a revolution here I shall fight to have him enthroned King of the United States."
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#OTD in #Zurich in 1919: eighth soirée #Dada in the Saal zur Kaufleuten.
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#OTD in 1915:
Important pre-#Dada event in Berlin, when Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck held the 'Memorial for Fallen Poets'
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#OTD in 1896
Birth of Fried-Hardy Worm, Spartacist and participant in Berlin #Dada activities
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Fried-Hardy Worm - Wikipedia
Fried-Hardy Worm (8 February 1896, Berlin – 29 August 1973, Berlin) was a left-wing German journalist, satirist and publisher.
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#OTD in 1916
The first night of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, taken to be the foundational moment of #dada.
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