Da dandy: antimoda & contra-gênero no dadaísmo

Abstract

In the 1920s, Dadaism works introduced the transformation of identity in countless photoperformances. Amidst transvestites and ambivalences of gender, artists problematized the performativity of self by the image of art. Hence, they made visible the conflict between identity, social roles and sexuality. Artists resumed the spiritual strategy of dandism to give visibility to the ambivalences of gender, subverting its original essence to introduce the Da Dandy aesthetic. By adopting an anarchic attitude, they crossed the border between anti-art and anti-fashion, celebrating anti-fashion by a praise to cultural decay. This article examines how Da Dandyism introduced, in the sphere of artistic fiction, a debate about taste and the experience of the beautiful in order to transfigure the aesthetic dimension of art.