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