ATD: Dada in there?

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.salisbury.edu/theatre/Dada/dada%20timeline.htm

http://www.salisbury.edu/theatre/Dada/dada%20timeline.htm#Surrealism

Dada/Surrealism

http://artchive.com/artchive/surrealism.html

Dada and Surrealism: Texts and Extracts

http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/surrext.html

dada
1920, from Fr. dada "hobbyhorse," child's nonsense
word, selected 1916 by Romanian poet Tristan Tzara,
leader of the movement, for its resemblance to
meaningless babble.

"Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors,
the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries,
trivialities: LIFE." [T. Tzara, "Dada Manifesto,"
1918]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=d

surrealism
1927, from Fr. surréalisme (from sur- "beyond" +
réalisme "realism"), coined c.1917 by Guillaume
Apollinaire, taken over by Andre Breton as the name of
the movement he launched in 1924 with "Manifeste de
Surréalisme." Taken up in Eng. at first in the Fr.
form; the anglicized version is from 1931; surreal is
a 1936 back-formation.

"De cette alliance nouvelle, car jusqu'ici les décors
et les costumes d'une part, la chorégraphie d'autre
part, n'avaient entre eux qu'un lien factice, il este
résulté, dans 'Parade,' une sorte de surréalisme."
[Apollinaire, "Notes to 'Parade' "] 

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=50

--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ...

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