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Dada • 1921 • IV
Shared by Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk Date shared 4 August 2022 Projects Source Publication

Dada • 1921 • IV
The single-issue publication, New York Dada, is issued in New York. The publication features a cover image of Duchamp's Belle Haleine Eau de Voilette (Beautiful Breath, Veil Water) and a mock 'authorisation' of New York Dada by Tristan Tzara that states: "You ask for authorisation to name your periodical Dada. But Dada belongs to everybody."

An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.

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