DADA

Today in Art Appreciation, our class began to discuss an art movement called Dada. Immediately, I thought back to the last section of The Waste Land where we had a discussion about Eliot using the term.

According to my Artforms book, "Dada began in protest against the horrors of World War I..." This movement protested the war was to get away from "traditional, narrow-minded values" that, as Dadaists believed, started the war.

I began to connect this art form, or lack of it, to the to craziness that we all seemed to notice in The Waste Land. Obvious connections are the war and the madness that became of the poem in certain areas. Maybe Eliot's wanted to transfer the ideals of this relatively new artistic movement to his word art. This seems to be the case to me.

P.S. I posted on Cameron White's.