The Waste Land, Liminoid Phenomena, and the Confluence of Dada.

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: TUCKER, SHAWN R. | Copyright information

In her recent article about early-twentieth-century art, Nancy Hargrove reverses Harold Bloom's famous phrase to argue that this art demonstrates not an "anxiety of influence" but a "synergy of influence" (83). Hargrove explores the synergistic manner in which artists working in different media have inspired or even collaborated with one another in developing innovative approaches. Among early-twentiethcentury movements, Dada is clearly indicative of this synergy, though we might b...

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