The cover of ''Dada Tank'' from June 1922. ''Dada Tank'' was a Yugoslav

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ist single issue publication published in

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in June 1922 and edited by Dragan Aleksić. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to Branko Ve Poljanski and his brother

Ljubomir Micić Ljubomir Micić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Мицић; 15 November 1895 – 14 June 1971) was a Serbs, Serbian poet, writer, critic, editor and actor. He was the founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism and its magazine ''Zenit''. Both he and hi ...

's anti-Dada publication ''

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'' from May 1922.

Background

After falling out with the representative of

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, Dragan Aleksić, the Zenitists Branko Ve Poljanski and

published an anti-Dada single issue publication in May 1922 called ''

''. 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.

''Dada-Tank'' was a large-scale, eight-page folded sheet with a typographically bold dispersion of cover information in interrupted, alternating horizontal and vertical rows of letters. Inside, the two columns were divided by black lines, and programmatic texts by Aleksić touching upon various arts alternated with his own poems, as well as poems by other contributors including

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism (a ...

Richard Huelsenbeck Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (aka Charles R. Hulbeck) (23 April 189220 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau who was associated with the formation of the Dada movement. Life and work Afte ...

and the graphic artist Mihailo S. Petrov. The fourth page is covered entirely by a picture-text by Aleksić printed in irregular vertical columns up and down the page. ''Dada Tank'' also included the

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poem ''Grčka Vatra'' (Greek Fire) by Erwin Enders, originally published in the May 1922 issue of

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-based '' MA''. In the first edition of ''Dada Tank'', Aleksić used profane and obscene language, provoking the intervention of the state censors and leading to a second, censored edition being printed.

Legacy

In the late 1960s, novelist

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published the first reprints of ''Dada Tank'' and '' Dada Jazz'' in the Neo-avantgarde pro-

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magazine ''Rok''.

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