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

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

ist single issue publication published in

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in June 1922 and edited by

Dragan Aleksić Dragan Aleksić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Алексић, 22 December 1901 – 22 July 1958) was a Serbian Dadaist poet, author, journalist and filmmaker. He was the founder of the Yugoslavian branch of Dadaism, termed "Yugo-Dada". Born ...

. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to

Branko Ve Poljanski Branko Ve Poljanski (pseudonym of Branislav Micić, 22 October 1898, Sošice - 14 January, 1947, Recloses, France ) was a Serb poet and painter active in the Serbo-Croat avant-garde. He was the co-founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism an ...

and his brother

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

's anti-Dada publication ''

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 ...

'' from May 1922.

Background

After falling out with the representative of

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, the Zenitists

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 The cover of ''Dada Jazz'' from September 1922. ''Dada Jazz'' was a Yugoslav Dadaist single issue publication published in Zagreb in September 1922 and edited by Dragan Aleksić. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to Branko Ve Poljan ...

'' 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, comp ...

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, pain ...

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 Huelse ...

and the graphic artist

Mihailo S. Petrov Mihajlo S. Petrov (1902-1983) was a Serbian- Yugoslavian avant-garde painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and art critic. Biography After he completed his studies under the tutelage of Ljubomir Ivanović at the Arts and Crafts School and ...

. 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 ''

'' in the Neo-avantgarde pro-

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

magazine ''Rok''.

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(in

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