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



Thanks for correcting me.  Didn't realize how uniformed I was.  Do you
know of any books/website where I could learn more?

thanx

>
> Make that "WW I" aka "the Great War." The Dada movement started in
> Zürich 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 Zürich 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
> Fascism 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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