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