Dada Manifestos and Other Writings

The playful manifestos of the Dada movement, one of the first avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century, were a rejection of institutionalism and all forms of conformity, containing a radical destructiveness and a will to fight against every aspect of the bourgeois order, while also carrying a great joy and exuberance.

Rejecting all imposed rules, this short-lived avant-garde movement, which defended "life" and blended a brand new poetic experience with life experience, the meeting of anger and laughter, ignoring the rules of meaning and logic, freeing art from its chains and transforming it into a festival, exposed the exhaustion of the era through the absurd.

During World War I, amidst the first great human slaughter and the first great collapse of the bourgeois world, the Dada Manifestos, which aimed to surprise and shake public opinion and thereby create mass awareness, resonate with the echoes of the salons in which they were read, along with Francis Picabia's drawings and Other Texts (Lampisteries), translated into Turkish for the first time.