Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada …

Jan 1, 2025 · Tristan Tzara (born 1896, Moineşti, Rom.—died December 1963, Paris) was a Romanian-born French poet and essayist known mainly as the founder of Dada, a nihilistic …

Tzara found and propagated Dada art in Zurich during World War I, determined to find an alternative to tradition, history, and the continuation of what he considered the pernicious …

Tristan Tzara, “Manifeste Dada,” 1918. Violating two basic principles of logic, Tzara here contradicts his own terms (writing a manifesto that wants nothing), and denies his own …

He is best remembered as a cofounder and theoretician of Dadaism, an intellectual movement of the World War I era whose adherents espoused intentional irrationality and urged individuals …

TRISTAN TZARA “Dada Manifesto 1918” The magic of a word—Dada—which has brought journalists to the gates of a world unforeseen, is of no importance to us. To put out a manifesto …

Mar 28, 2018 · “The mag­ic of a word – Dada – which has brought jour­nal­ists to the gates of a world unfore­seen, is of no impor­tance to us,” wrote Roman­ian-French essay­ist, poet, and …

Born Samuel Rosenstock, Tzara spent the First World War in neutral Switzerland, where he founded the Zurich Dada movement in 1916. During this time, he invented an eccentric …

Dada is not at all modern. It is more in the nature of a return to an almost Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada covers things with an artificial gentleness, a snow of butterflies released …

In this interview, Tristan Tzara talks about the birth of the Dada movement in Switzerland, the support of the review Littérature directed by Aragon, Soupault and Breton, the content of this …