View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Iowa Research Online Dada/Surrealism ISSN 0084-9537 No. 22 DOI: 10.17077/0084-9537.1347 Dada, War and Peace Article 6 Ultraist Aggregation and Dada Agitation: Avant-Garde Attitudes in the Wake of War Zachary Rockwell Ludington University of Maine accessible Copyright © 2018 Zachary Rockwell Ludington Recommended Citation Ludington, Zachary R. "Ultraist Aggregation and Dada Agitation: Avant-Garde Attitudes in the Wake of War." Dada/Surrealism 22 (2018): n. pag. Web. Available at: https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.1347 Hosted by Iowa Research Online This Theme Essay is brought to you for free and open access by Iowa Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dada/Surrealism by an authorized administrator of Iowa Research Online. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Ultraist Aggregation and Dada Agitation: Avant-Garde Attitudes in the Wake of War Zachary Rockwell Ludington The Dada broadside manifesto of 1921, “DADA soulève tout” (“Dada Excites Everything”), contrasts the Zurich-born movement with other avant-garde movements of the day. While Dada agitates the artistic past and present with brash irreverence, the manifesto insists that “l’ultraïsme recommande le mélange de ces 7 choses artistiques” ‘ultraism recommends the mixture of these seven artistic things’ (Ribemont-Dessaignes, DADA 33; “Dada Excites Everything” 101). The manifesto considers the subjects of the seven lines preceding this take on ultraísmo to be the ingredients of the Spanish avant-garde movement: cubism, expressionism, simultanism, futurism, unanism, neo-classicism, and “paroxysm.” Dada meanwhile declares itself to be different from all these trends.