November 2011
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Dada journal "Littérature"
Littérature, like 391, began independently of Dada and outlasted it. André Breton, in one of his Dada manifestos described Dada as a “stae of mind” but later grudgingly remarked that “Dada was never considered by us as anything but the coarse image of a state of mind to whose creation it had not contributed.” This hardly does justice to the Dada episode in Paris and indicates Breton’s ignorance of or indifference to Dada’s activities and influence in Germany and Eastern Europe […]
PDFs of Dada journal “Littérature” Edited by André Breton, L Aragon & P Soupault. Paris 1919-24
“That’s one of the essential qualities of abstraction—there’s not a one-to-one relationship between the image and what it stands for in the world. There are shifting meanings which have the characteristics of metaphor.”
—Terry Winters
