TRISTAN TZARA’S PRIMITIVISM
TRISTAN TZARA’S PRIMITIVISM

Summary/Abstract: The lyrics sung by African tribes in their rituals became for young dadists a real source of inspiration in the programs presented at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. We want to emphasize that by meticulously documentation , the author managed to break away from pure black aesthetics of primitive art and by the popularization of black culture in the Dadaist’s evenings he discovered himself the profoundness of black primitivism . African culture is used as a weapon in the opened war he declared thought norms and traditional life in general, showing to an Europe in a period of crisis, not exotic but simple scrolling possibility of finding a pure time .Traditional oral poetry respond to religious or social stricter needs , and Tristan Tzara launched through this poem, an invitation to return to an collective art whose utility merges with life itself. The cultural superiority of a people becomes a proof of civilization and the African culture is considered beeing superior for these reasons to the europeean one.

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