Europe After the Rain. Dada and Surrealism - ACE066.3

Film of German crowds celebrating the end of the war. Dada reaches Berlin; film of military parades intercut with pages from Dada publications; VO quotes Richard Huelsenbeck saying that "we wanted to incite our opponents, and if necessary to create new opponents for ourselves… a soul can only reveal itself through direct action". Geroge Grosz’s The Burial (1917-1918); the demands of the Dadaist Central Revolutionary Council read over. More work by Grosz. Photographs of "members of Club Dada", John Heartfield and George Grosz, Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann. VO says that "the field of photomontage … reveals a conceptually new image of the chaos of an age of war and revolution": Hannah Höch’s Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beerbelly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919-20) and Hausmann’s The Art Critic / Der Kunstreporter (1919-1920) and ABCD (Portrait de l'artist) (1923-1924). VO quoting Hausmann on his "Phonetic Poems"; recording of him reading them (blank screen). Photograph of participants at the First International Dada Fair, Berlin,1920. Description of Kurt Schwitters’s introduction to his work; photograph of Schwitters, his work Das Arbeiterbild / The Worker Picture (1919); more phonetic poems heard over. Schwitters was rejected by the Dadaists and started calling his own work "Merz". Das Sternenbild (Merzbild 25A) (1920); description of the general principles quoted over. Another Merzbild with sound poem heard over. Photographs of Max Ernst and Johannes Baargeld, founders of Cologne’s Dada Conspiracy of the Rhineland. Quotation from Ernst on collage. Various works including C’est le chapeau qui fait l'homme / The Hat Makes the Man (1920). Stratified Rocks, Nature's Gift of Gneiss Lava Iceland Moss... (1920). Hier ist noch alles in der Schwebe... / Here Everything is Still Floating... (1920). Photograph of Tzara and others. Original film of cross-country cycle racing, cross-country running, horse races, etc., with Tzara’s VO reciting his Chanson Dada / Dada Song (subtitled in English). Duchamp’s moustachioed Mona Lisa, L H O O Q (1919). Photograph of André Breton. Pages from Dada publications; commentary gives overview of what artists were doing. Photographs from event at Salle Gaveau (1920); VO approving report from one of the artists, quotations from programme. Photographs of Dadaists, of publications, several quotations over, including "True Dadaists are against Dada".