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Dada-Jok
The cover of ''Dada-Jok'' from May 1922. ''Dada-Jok'' (Dada No) was a Yugoslav anti-Dada single issue publication published in May 1922 and edited by the Zenitist Branko Ve Poljanski. It was Poljanski's and his brother Ljubomir Micić's response to the Dada movement following their falling out with its representative in Yugoslavia, Dragan Aleksić. Name The word Dada is homophone to the Serbian interjection "da, da" meaning "yes, yes". The word "jok" is a loanword derived from the Turkish yok meaning "no". Contents Although self-mockery was already present in Dadaism, the magazine ''Dada-Jok'' was meant to dismiss the merits of Dada. Through a skillful, reflexive parody of the movement, Poljanski sought to expose Dada's limits as an artistic and spiritual current, proposing Zenitism in its stead. ''Dada-Joks eight-page foldout sheet was littered with arbitrarily boldfaced or capitalized letters, photographs and manifesto-style texts by Poljanski and Ljubomir Micić, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada Tank
The cover of ''Dada Tank'' from June 1922. ''Dada Tank'' was a Yugoslav Dadaist single issue publication published in Zagreb in June 1922 and edited by Dragan Aleksić. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to Branko Ve Poljanski and his brother Ljubomir Micić's anti-Dada publication ''Dada-Jok'' from May 1922. Background After falling out with the representative of Dada in Yugoslavia, Dragan Aleksić, the Zenitists Branko Ve Poljanski and Ljubomir Micić published an anti-Dada single issue publication in May 1922 called ''Dada-Jok''. Through a skillful, reflexive parody of the movement, the editor Poljanski sought to expose Dada's limits as an artistic and spiritual current, proposing Zenitism in its stead. As a response, Aleksić published two single-issue pamphlets of his own – ''Dada Tank'' in June and '' Dada Jazz'' in September 1922. Contents ''Dada-Tank'' was a large-scale, eight-page folded sheet with a typographically bold dispersion of cover informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |