dada

"...presented as a 'talk' though read out from a longish, typed-up, half finished text, which was quickly discarded and left to literally rot. Though in the Newcastle ambience it was delivered to an assembly of people loosely around John Lyle's surrealist group in Exeter together with local hippy dropouts and some dissident art students."

Manifesto written by Richard Huelsenbeck and Raoul Hausmann, first published in …

“Manifest Proletkunst” (Manifesto of Proletarian Art), a text written by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, published in Kurt Schwitters'…

A short account of the Dada movement that developed during the First World War in radical revulsion to the society that had let it come about.