Dada Pictures Kristyn Baker

    I was, at first, very confused as to what kind of signifcant connection existed between the images in the Dada magazine but one blog post from another student helped to steer my analysis.  The images seemed to be totally random except for one thing, I was able to find mechanical and cylindrical objects.  I noticed that the seemingly random way in which the images were arranged were very similar to other modernist pictures we have studied in class.  These pictures are not neccessarily supposed to be understood completely.  There was a universal idea after the war that not everything has to happen for a reason and modernist art was often a reflection of this.  And so, I do not think that these images are to be easily interpreted.  There is supposed to be an idea left hanging with no resolve.  

    That being said, I think the depictions of machinary to be very deliberate, especially since it is repeated in every image.  I agree with another poster that this was also a reflection of a post war mentality.  Men were machine-like.  They had been used as nothing more than tools in a senseless war and upon returning home had been left with questions that had no answers.  They were forced to push on, voids of what they had once been.