'The Dada campaign was conducted in, on, and through flyers, posters, manifestos, handbills, and small magazines; it was here, far more than in works of art, that Dadaism moved and existed.'
'View Dadaism as a whole and the picture that emerges is... a compendium of sects.'
'Dada was at first thought to be an offshoot of Expressionism'
'[Tristan Tzara was] extremely bored by the capital's hidebound literary scene.'
'Dada, it seemed, promised something refreshingly different from the eternal round of rarified readings, the same polite applause, the same barely suppressed rivalries and the same faint praise.'
'Dada promised the vehemence of undisguised dissent and crowd-pulling events.'
'Above all else, it promised to knock "art" off its pedestal, to put an end to the vapid harmlessness of the literary set with their elitist arts and culture pages - indeed to put an end to "culture" as something distinct from everyday life.'
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