Dada > Surrealism
April 16, 1896, Moinesti, Romania (His birth name was Samuel Rosenstock)
Tzara was an angry young writer when he arrived in Zurich during WWI and helped launch Dada. His nihilistic poems, recited from the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire, constitute some of the earliest Performance Art. His Dada Manifesto and intense personality hugely influenced Dadaists working in the visual arts. Tzara moved to France and, when Dada self-destructed in the early 1920s, lent his considerable talents to the emergent Surrealism movement. His mature works were of a more hopeful nature.
- • Dada Manifesto (1918)
- • 25 Poems (1918)
- • Seven Dada Manifestos (1924)
- • The Approximate Man (1931)
- • The Inner Face (1953)
December 24, 1963, Paris, France
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