However, the [Dada] developments in Eastern Europe have
gained only very little attention.
seems no mention of Zenitism, recognised as the only - shall I say genuinely
non-Western Dada movement? - however with regular contributions for their
magazine by the leading Dada figures, and closely linked to the
international Dada circles:
"....1921 The avant-garde "Zenitism" movement is founded by Ljubomir Micic
(1895–1971). Western European culture is spiritually bankrupt, according to
Micic, but Zenitism, the embodiment of the Balkan "barbaro-genius," will
revitalize it. The group's manifesto is published in its magazine Zenit
(Zenith), which, despite Micic's insistence on the superiority of
"Balkanization," routinely reproduces work by Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists,
and Expressionists...."
from:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/eusb/ht11eusb.htm
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadaist%20texts/micic.htm
(The University of Iowa libraries)
best
Gordana
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