German poet, dadaist and psychoanalyst (1892-1974)
Richard Huelsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst, and one of the leading Dada artists; he participated in Zürich in the 'Cabaret Voltaire'.
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Pen Names:
Charles R. Hulbeck
Alternative Names:
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck
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Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions.. .I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation.
As Arp and I are sitting in the large living room of my house on Central Park in November 1958, we try again and again to understand the significance of Dada for ourselves and for others. Many elements surfaced in me and in the 'Fantastic Prayers' [his poems Phantastische Gebete, Zurich 1916] at the same time; resistance against the 'civilization' we live in, fury about a purely factual world which leaves out personality and thus creative power, the means of irony and underlying religiousness. Ball turned religious during the times of dadaism, Arp is a religious person today, and I have always been one, without wanting to realize it, perhaps without knowing it.
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