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"He is a product of Surrealism, of Dada, of the Modernist arts," she said.
The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote that the group "brought Zurich Dada of the late-1910s to 1970s Los Angeles".
But then I wasn't to know that the ruck outside the saleroom had been organised by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the big dada of deconstructionism.
The 10 little gems on view here were made around 1950, but the lovingly pieced-together grids of faded fabric and paper scraps look as though they could have easily come out of the 1920's Dada of Kurt Schwitters or the intimate pluralism of the 1970's.
Black as something that functions as a conceptual idea, as an open-ended signifier, and dada of course referring to a radical movement in art where artists, too, were responding to a social political dynamic.
On today's edition, the line-up includes Mad Decent festival smasher ETC!ETC!, moombahton maestros Nadastrom, and the don dada of Slow Roast Records, face-melter extraordinaire Kill The Noise.
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The surrealist movement started in Paris in 1924, partly as a development of the Dada school of art.
A toy-like contraption by Takashi Murakami that reveals the enduring influence of the Dada cult of the inept, went for £397,250.
Though his revolutionary politics have long since evaporated, Kouchner retains from the early '60s a Dada sense of the ludicrousness of the postures of authority.
Yet, intriguingly, the overall effect here is less suggestive of the wacky disorientations of dada and surrealism than of some kind of yearning nostalgia.
But it was a distinctly Chicano brand of Dada, by way of David Bowie and Frank Zappa, drag and Pachuco culture, telenovelas and oddball UHF television stations, and New Wave and silent movies.
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