[spectre] Zurich presents Dada East? The Romanians of CabaretVoltaire

Gordana Novakovic gordana.novakovic at btopenworld.com
Sun Sep 24 12:42:12 CEST 2006


> However, the [Dada] developments in Eastern Europe have
> gained only very little attention.

seems no mention of Zenitism, recognised as the only - shall I say genuinely 
non-Western Dada movement? - however with regular contributions for their 
magazine by the leading Dada figures, and closely linked to the 
international Dada circles:

"....1921 The avant-garde "Zenitism" movement is founded by Ljubomir Micic 
(1895–1971). Western European culture is spiritually bankrupt, according to 
Micic, but Zenitism, the embodiment of the Balkan "barbaro-genius," will 
revitalize it. The group's manifesto is published in its magazine Zenit 
(Zenith), which, despite Micic's insistence on the superiority of 
"Balkanization," routinely reproduces work by Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists, 
and Expressionists...."
from:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/eusb/ht11eusb.htm
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadaist%20texts/micic.htm
(The University of Iowa libraries)

best
Gordana 



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