This volume contains Tristan Tzara’s famous manifestos,
which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became
essential texts of the modern movement and models for
Breton’s Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both
deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his
character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often
uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings
contributed by Francis Picabia.
In addition, this volume also contains Tzara’s
Lampisteries – articles that throw light on various art
forms contemporary with his own work, at a time
when art, weary of the old certainties, turned into
subjective and often abstract forms, favouring the
reality of the mind over that of the senses.
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'Tristan Tzara was like me, like Socrates, like Chateaubriand, a very
small, fat and very ugly man, but with incredible charm!'
Fernando Arrabal
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Read an excerpt from
Seven Dada Manifestoes and Lampisteries
