RE: [microsound] Re: OT[microsound ] war

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:00 AM -0800 3/26/03, <macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>This has made me think of the dadaist movement in post WWII Europe.
>People were in a state of confusion.  Their entire world(physically,
>mentaly) had been turned upside-down and they began to question what was
>real.

Make that "WW I" aka "the Great War." The Dada movement started in 
Z=FCrich in 1916, less than two years after the onset of the war and 
more than two years before its end. Many artists and others were 
taking refuge in Switzerland during the war (it's interesting to know 
that Lenin was in Z=FCrich at that time and frequented some of the same 
spots as the Dadaists).

Avant garde art movements have had interesting relationships to war, 
revolution, and politics - and not always on the side of peace. F.T. 
Marinetti and the Italian Futurists were pro war and later aligned 
with the Fascists (his 1924 "Futurism and Fascism" argued that 
=46ascism was a nutural extension of Futurism).

The Russian Futurists were active in the years following the Russian 
Revolution, organizing agit-prop campaigns to promote the coming 
utopian society. This optimism didn't last, and they were later 
denounced as decadent and counter-revolutionary.
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