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Certainly the most uncompromising attack on conventional culture was launched by Dada at the end of the First World War. But the usual defence mechanisms were soon operating: the turds of ‘anti-art’ were solemnly framed and hung alongside ‘the School of Athens’; Dada thereby underwent the castration by card-index and was soon safely entombed in the histories as just another school of art.
Alexander Trocchi
Dadaism sought to abolish art without realizing it; Surrealism sought to realize art without abolishing it. The critical position since developed by the situationists has shown that the abolition and realization of art are inseparable aspects of a unitary supersession of art.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §191