Still, this alleged isomorphism of aesthetic "expression and impression" is not immediately obvious.[15] Think, for example, about the seriously playful "found art" tradition in Surrealism, dada, Fluxus, and their heirs, a tradition in which ordinary objects get seditiously appropriated as "art".
Foundation director of DADA, Ayodele Arigbabu, described the collection and other similar video and visual art work (in an email): "Far more than aesthetic indulgence, these renditions are a calibration of the changes deemed necessary in today's political, technical and cultural infrastructure".
It was born out of a creative writing workshop initiated by DADA books in Lagos.
(Schulhoff, encouraged as a child by the great Czech composer Antonín Dvorák himself, and enamoured of jazz and Dada, was not in Terezín but died in the Wülzburg camp in 1942).
The gallery is also one of the best places to study Dada and surrealism anywhere.
"Visions of the Modern" (1994) contains essays on Matisse, Cubism, Dada, surrealism and post-war American art.
And 20 years before that, a Hanover artist, Kurt Schwitters, had tumbled on the name "Merz" art for his own brand of rebellious self-expression known as Dada when cutting up, from the local business press, ads for Commerzbank.
Topher Delaney, a California designer and disciple of Dada, has created several stunning works, including her "Garden of Divorce" for a San Francisco woman who had split acrimoniously from her husband.
"What does Islamist mean?" asks Omar al-Dada, a doctor who heads a small, independent fighting group in Raqqa province.
The neo-Dada satire quality of the kinetic sculpture created during the 1960s is exemplified by the works of Jean Tinguely.
Two post-Wolgast poets of childhood worthy of mention are Christian Morgenstern, whose macabre, pre-Dada poetry for adults later came into vogue, and the lesser-gifted Joachim Ringelnatz.
