Word: dadaism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...intellectual ferment that was Paris in the Twenties burst many strange and sometimes wonderful aberrations. The grand synthesizer of some of the best of these artistic movements was the little magazine "transition." Published first in April, 1927, "transition" found the inspiration for its early daring in dadaism and surrealism but soon developed its own literary philosophy...
...have been shed both subtly and cataclysmically. Ideas such as those of Freud which had been around before the turn of the century invaded thinking they had never been intended for. Loss of faith in reason spread to the painters and poets and eventually evolved into such aberrations as Dadaism and Surrealism. However, these were the sensitive areas, and the folks in Sauk Center, Minnesota had not yet been moved by it at all. Joyce had to build upon an ancient myth to get any order into his world, but most of the more modern myths still persisted...