ATD: Dada in there?

[Ya Sam]

As Pynchon writes in his intro to Slow Learner, he has been strongly 
influenced by surrealism. The combination of incompatible, the staple of 
surrealist aesthetics may be found many of his works. Now, officially 
surrealism dates back to 1924, when Breton's manifesto was written. The 
novel doesn't cover that period. I don't know whether the word was already 
in currency before 1918, but as dadaism is considered to be the cradle of 
surrealism, and taking into account the sheer wackiness of the movement, I 
think that Pynchon will pay some attention to it, and maybe even insert a 
pastiche of dadaist poetry.


>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: ATD:  Dada in there?
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
>[...] There are also two sculptures in the show by the
>legendary Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Lorighoven, who
>walked around New York with a wastebasket on her head,
>postage stamps stuck to her face, and her dress
>ornamented with children's toys, tea balls, and other
>trinkets she swiped from Woolworth's or found in the
>streets.[...]
>
>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19191
>Making It New
>By Charles Simic
>Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York,
>Paris
>Catalog of the exhibition by Leah Dickerman, with
>essays by Brigid Doherty, Dorothea Dietrich, Sabine T.
>Kriebel, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf, and Matthew
>S. Witkovsky
>National Gallery of Art/DAP, 519 pp., $65.00; $40.00
>(paper)
>
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