{"id":346663,"date":"2018-02-03T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/with-or-without-president-dada\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:53:31","slug":"with-or-without-president-dada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/with-or-without-president-dada\/","title":{"rendered":"With or Without President Dada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99463\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99463\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-5.11.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"297\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by angela n. | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was big news last week (eons ago in Trumpland): the Guggenheim Museum in New York turned down the Trumps\u2019 request to borrow Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s 1888 painting \u201cLandscape With Snow,\u201d offering instead to install a functioning solid gold toilet in their White House family quarters.<\/p>\n<p>The offered object, Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s \u201cAmerica,\u201d is a piece of twenty-first century conceptual art, but the reference to Marcel Duchamp\u2019s 1917 (porcelain) urinal, an icon of the early twentieth century <em>dada<\/em> movement, is hard to miss, especially in light of the Trumps\u2019 request and the Guggenheim\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dadaist <\/em>iconoclasm reflected the political orientation of a leftwing avant-garde intent on shocking and, as far as possible, overturning bourgeois values and expectations.\u00a0 The surrealist movement that followed closely on its heels, and that involved many of the same people, entertained similar objectives.<\/p>\n<p>In the dream world that surrealist artists evoked, things sometimes turn into their opposite.\u00a0 Dialecticians, like Hegel and Marx, identified similar transformations.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore both fitting and unsettling that the most <em>dada <\/em>president imaginable, the political equivalent of a porcelain urinal, would catalyze the emergence of a surreal world order, replete with diplomatic, military, and environmental policies in which departures from received norms, so far from moving humankind closer to a realm of freedom, equality and solidarity,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/02\/reaction-ahead-with-or-without-president-dada\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by angela n. | CC BY 2.0 It was big news last week (eons ago in Trumpland): the Guggenheim Museum in New York turned down the Trumps\u2019 request to borrow Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s 1888 painting \u201cLandscape With Snow,\u201d offering instead to install a functioning solid gold toilet in their White House family quarters. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}