Propagandada discovered in Detroit - Issue 270 - Fifth Estate Magazine
The Dadaists were writers and artists who made it their raison d’etre to destroy culture, or at least literature and art. They carried to its ultimate and absurd conclusion the distinction between form and content in art, rejecting literary conventions, the frame round a canvas, and even the ‘laws’ of normal speech–all these restricted and deformed the authentic complexity of mental reality. The real activity of the mind was too fluid, immediate and spontaneous to be fixed or frozen in permanent form. Furthermore, all products of the mind, from its most incoherent mutterings and day-d...