MONSIEUR
ANTIPYRINE’S MANIFESTO
DADA IS OUR INTENSITY
It erects the inconsequential bayonets and the sumatral head of German babies.
DADA IS LIFE WITH NEITHER
BEDROOM SLIPPERS
NOR PARALLELS It is against and for unity and definitely against the future. We are wise enough to know that our brains are going to become flabby cushions.
That our
ANTI-DOGMATISM
is as exclusive as a CIVIL SERVANT
And that we cry liberty but are not free. A severe necessity with entire discipline nor morals and that we spit on humanity. DADA remains within the framework of European weaknesses. It’s still shit, but from now on we want to shit in different colors so as.
N R O D A TO O O Z E H T T R A F O
GS OF A L F E H T L L A H IT W TES ALL THE CONSULA found asters and we can be gm rin s cu cir e ar e W unds, the winds of fairgro whistling amongst ties, ali re s, tre utions, thea in convents, prostit ! ng ba , ng s, ohoho, ba feelings, resaturant
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We declare that the motor car is a feeling that has cosseted us quite enough in the dilatoriness of its abstrations, as have transatlantic liners, noises and ideas.
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WE HAVE NO WISH TO COUNT
THE WINDOWS OF THE MARVELOUS ELITE For DADA doesn’t exist for anyone, and we want everyone to understand this. This is Dada’s balcony, I assure you. From there you can hear all of the military marches and come down cleaving the air like a seraph landing in a public baths to piss and understand the parable.
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Hee, Hee
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LONG LIVE FRANCE
WE ARE NOT NAIVE
We are successive, we are exclusive, we are not simple- tons and we are perfectcly capable of intelligent discussion. But we, DADA, don’t agree with them, for art isn’t serious, I assure you, and if we reveal the crime so as to show that we are learned denunciators, it’s to please you.
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NEVER NEVER NEVER
DADA doesn’t speak. DADA has no fixed ideas. DADA doesn’t catch flies. The ministry is overturned. By Whom? By DADA. The Futurist is dead. Of What? Of DADA. A young girl commits suicide. Because of what? DADA. The spirits are telephoned. Who invented it? DADA. Someone walks on your feet. It’s DADA. If you have serious ideas about life, if you make artistic discoveries and if all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter, if you find that all your ideas are useless and ridiculous know that...
IT IS
DADA BEGINNING
To speak to you, cubism constructs a catherdral of artistic liver paste. What does DADA do? Expressionism poisons artistic sardines. What does DADA do? Simultaneism is still at its first artistic communion. What does DADA do? Futurism wants to mount in an artistic lyricism-elevator.
WHAT DOES DADA DO? Unaism embraces allism and fishes with an artistic line.Neo-classicism discovers the good deeds of artistic art.What does DADA do? Paraoxysm makes a trust of all artistic cheeses. Ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven artistics things.
What does DADA do? Creationism vorticism imagism also propose some artistic recipes. What does DADA do? What does DADA do? 50 franc reward to the person who finds the best way to explain DADA to us.
DADA passes everything through a new net. DADA is the bitterness which opens its laugh on all that which has been made consecreated forgotten in our language in our brain in our habits.
IT SAYS
TO YOU:
There is humanity and the lovely idiocies which have made it happy to this advanced age. DADA has always existed. The Holy Virgin was already a dadaist.
DADA IS NEVER RIGHT
CITIZENS, COM RADES LADIES & GENT LEMEN Beware of forgeries! Imitators of DADA want to present DADA in an artistic form which it has never had. Citizens, you are presented today in a pornagraphic form, vulgar and baroque spirit which is not the pure idiocy claimed by DADA but dogmatism and pretentious imbecility.
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Paris January 12, 1921 E. Varese, Tr. Tzara, Ph, Soupault, Soubeyran, J. Rigaut, G. Ribe-mont- Dessaignes, M. Ray, F. Pi-cabia, B Peret, C. Pausaers R. Hulsenbeeks.
J. Evola, M. Ernst, P. Eluard, Suz. Duchamp, M. Duchamp, Crotti, G. Cantarelli, Marg. Buffet, Gab. Buffet, A Breton Baargeld, Arp., W.C. Arensberg, L. Aragon-- From Approximate Man and Other.
Writings, Translated and Edited by Mary Ann Caws (Wayne State University Press). Reprinted in “Teachers & Writers Collaborative.” 5 Union Square W. New York City 10003.
BY TRISTAN TZARA Philosophy is the question from which side shall we look at life, God, the idea or other phenonmena. Everything one looks at is false. I do not consider the relative result more important than the choice between cake and cherries after dinner.
The system of quickly look at the other side of a thing in order to impose your opinion indirectly is called dialectics, in order words, haggling over the spirit of fried potatoes while dancing method around it.
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If I cry out: Ideal, Ideal, Ideal, Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom, I have given a pretty faithful version of progress, law, morality and all other fine qualities that various highly intelligent men have discussed in so many books, only to conclude that after all. Everyone dances to his own boomboom.
And that the writer is entitled to his boomboom: the satisfaction of pathological curiousity; a private bell for inexplicable needs; a bath; pecuniary difficulties; a stomach with repercussions in life:
THE AUTHORITY OF THE MYSTYIC WAND Formulated as the bouquet of a phantom orchestra make up of silent fiddle bows with philtres made of chicken manure. With the blue eyed glasses of an angel they have exavated the inner life for a dime’s worth of unanimous gratitude. If all of them are right and if all the pills are pink pills.
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TRISTAN TZARA
(1896-1963)
Romanian-born French poet and essayist known mainly as a founder of Dada writing the first Dada texts and the movement’s manifestos, member of the surrealist movement, the Communist Party and the French Resistance. His poems revealed the angusish of his soul, caught between revolt and wonderment at the daily tragedy of the human condition. His mature works started with L’Homme approximatif (1931) and continued with Parler seul (1950) and La Face interieure (1953).