The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others.
He is motivated by following his own, authentic answers to deep questions, and views himself as the highest authority on what is the right, or wrong, way to approach a situation or goal.
I often ask the question, "What does it actually mean to be authentic?" The answer to this question varies quite a bit depending on who I'm talking to, and continues to evolve for me personally.
In this sense, Twitter seems to be a powerful answer to a fundamental problem parody has faced over the past several decades: as Menand noted, "the barrier between the authentic and the parodic has collapsed".
Stephen Davies has argued for a strong contextualism, claiming that one cannot give a single answer to the question of whether particular instrumentation is required for the fully authentic instantiation of a work.
As she plumped herself wearily down on the doorstep to answer questions, that Nobel morning in 2007, she seemed to show an authentic, unbrushed side to the world's press.
An answer to "What's your story?" might move us closer to the authentic Obama.
At a small laboratory in a Bangkok suburb, a group of scientists has come up with what they hope is the answer to an old conundrum: how to tell if a Thai dish is authentic or not.
You simply cannot Google search the answer to, "What is my authentic calling".
But for the portion surveying Chinese officials, the two sides had to hash out how they would get authentic answers on sensitive questions.
