{"id":2934,"date":"2012-04-04T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2012-04-04T23:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T06:27:03","slug":"every-spectator-is-a-plotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"Every spectator is a plotter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting tid bit. I was going to write about Dada<\/a>. The non-art form that has given rise to so much of the current forms of art, including surrealism and ironic post-\"\"<\/a>modernist.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is most of the images from the great Dada artists are in private collections and, therefore, cannot be displayed in a venue such as a blog. Because it is owned. By someone who paid\"\"<\/a> a lot of money to an art dealer (because most of the original artists are now dead) or auction house.<\/p>\n

So I can\u2019t put in, say, one of Duchamp\u2019s most famous pieces, LHOOQ (roughly translates as, fire down below or, in modern parlance, a hot babe).<\/p>\n

Or anything by Man Ray, especially not a woman with Hair…Long Hair…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Or a portrait of Elizabeth the 1st by the \u00a0Mama of Dada, Beatrice Wood, who said \u201cchocolate and young men\u201d kept her going…<\/p>\n

Too bad. Because Dada has led to so much of today\u2019s art<\/a>. Even though most of the Dadaist\u2019s would consider a lot of today\u2019s work as pretentious, effete and, well, rule bound–even if the rule is to mock the conventions.<\/p>\n

If you have to explain it, it isn\u2019t Dada.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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