Tzara discusses the difference between the Surrealist and Dada notions of art. Dada was a spirit of change and spontaneous energizing whereas the modernism that surrounded it had solidified into more or less school like machines.
Note that his French is refined by his wonderful Romanian accent.
He is saying that by the time Dada began -roughly 1916 his only interest was for poetry. But that what they were reading/and hearing was not the poetry that motivated______________ him ____________
Modernism had become conventional and doctrinaire
__Isms as in Cubism/Futurism
the same went for the poetry
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He's speaking of Dada's BiRth / how it differed from Modernism. THis often surprises people as there's a view that Dada was modern. But as Tzara remarks the modernism he refers to had already become established as a dogma. It was this that he and his friends revolted against.
Tzara do you consider yourself the promoter of the Surrealist movement ?Modernism had become conventional and doctrinaire
__Isms as in Cubism/Futurism
the same went for the poetry
__________________________________.
He's speaking of Dada's BiRth / how it differed from Modernism. THis often surprises people as there's a view that Dada was modern. But as Tzara remarks the modernism he refers to had already become established as a dogma. It was this that he and his friends revolted against.
AH but promoter is a big word, lets say Dada had a great importance to the founding of Surrealism... where as Dada was born in Switzerland during a period of revolt
against the war of 1914 and the great ennnui disgust it inspired.......
It's also sweet to watch him roll his own cigarette as the interview progresses and he finishes it just as this excerpt ends. Watch his smile as he speaks of the great scandal Dada caused in the time of its heyday. And he states that scandal of that calibre is no longer possible....
_______________________The Sensibility of Dada differenetiaed itself from the modernist to the degree that it did not stake a territory so much as open one or many of them up
It was the spirit revolt against false values and morals, against Art with an Big A.
Dada was a state of mind that always exists against the ossification that inevitably seem to arise with movements and conventions.
He is asked why he uses the word dialectical. He explains that at the time of Dada they had no association with politics but that it was Surrealism that connected to the ideas of Marxism, and therefore to politics.... Dada was anarchistic. And it was Breton's interventions with Surrealism that they started to look at more collective considerations __
Dada was not a school of thought but an adventure /
Over time time Tzara and others went on to become political creatures __ Tzara became an active member of the Communist Party------------------ . But that is another story
Dada was not a school of thought but an adventure but he Tzara and others as time went on in the 1930's___ Tzara went on to become a member of the Communist Party of the time. But that is another story. He speaks of the Convention of 1921 when Dada and
Surrealism broke which at the time created a big scandal. But of course this type of scandal cannot happen now as at that time it was in the context of the war. He refers to the Congress of Paris convention which had been put on by Breton and the burgeoning Surrealist movement. Dada more or less ended in 1924 in Paris. At this time Surrealism took center stage.
