In my An Art Apart post today, I write about how art changed a hundred years ago as a result of the dissolution of civilization post WW1. And about my wife’s excellent book on the subject – THE CUT IN CREATION:

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/dada-go-go-go

”I wonder where the John Heartfields and Hannah Höchs are today? Or even the Gysins, Burroughses and Ballards? There is surely more fodder than ever to ritually scrutinize? Or perhaps the simulacrum plague fever induced by AI has made everyone complacent and lazy? Prompting ”write a text in the style of a William Burroughs cut-up” or ”create an image in the style of John Heartfield” just isn’t the same thing as actually doing the work, is it? ”Where has all the magic gone?””

#cutups #dada #surrealism #thecutincreation #renderingunconscious #vanessasinclair #anartapart #carlabrahamsson