dadaism | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:15:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Finding Inspiration in Chaos https://www.thesmartset.com/finding-inspiration-in-chaos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-inspiration-in-chaos https://www.thesmartset.com/finding-inspiration-in-chaos/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:15:32 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64811 In Zürich, I saw no drunken Bolsheviks at the Cafe Odeon. Down the block at the Terrasse Restaurant, there were no anarchists partying with war deserters. This wasn’t 1916.  Yet in the river, the swans were a feature still left over from more than a century earlier. They lilted on the surface of the water, […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/finding-inspiration-in-chaos/feed/ 0 Dysmorphia, Degenerate Art, and the Dormancy of Toxic Thoughts https://www.thesmartset.com/dysmorphia-degenerate-art-and-the-dormancy-of-toxic-thoughts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dysmorphia-degenerate-art-and-the-dormancy-of-toxic-thoughts https://www.thesmartset.com/dysmorphia-degenerate-art-and-the-dormancy-of-toxic-thoughts/#respond Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:23:48 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=61974 In 1910, a successful bacteriologist from Denmark put his medical practice on hold to focus on hindering the progress of expressionist art. Carl Julius Salomonsen thought that modernism in all its forms was pathological. Defective eyesight, he argued, was to blame for expressionist aesthetics. He termed it “ophthalmic psychosis,” and designated cubism and Dada poetry […]

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