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While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, a Jewish Man Created 95 Issues of a Satirical Magazine - Het Onderwater Cabaret

He often targeted Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, writing in one poem, “If he writes straight, read it crooked. / If he writes crooked, read it straight.”

An exhibition of Curt Bloch’s little-known wartime publications is going on display in Berlin
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Smithsonian Magazine · While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, a Jewish Man Created 95 Issues of a Satirical MagazineBy Sonja Anderson
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(Ridiculously Good Ideas) : Mark A/ed – a Dadaist Doodle Poem

This doodle word collage was done as a prompt exercise, before I decided to use the Ridiculously Good Ideas as a Dadaist Journal. I went back and decided to add asemic glyphs and cut-ups. This particular composition is an example of .
All are welcome to try it for themselves. Just free associate words, and doodle away, then add whatever cut-ups you wish. There is no right or wrong, just experiment.

I don't qualify as an insider, when it comes to art, nor does my spot on the societal web hierarchy make me an outsider -  so this is neither outsider nor insider art. I guess it is "inbetweener" art  (one foot in the vestibule, the other on the sidewalk).

Along with the composition, I have included the text of the free association stanza, in a layout that offers a possible reading.











The upper third of the page is a doodle of interconnected shapes and faces. There is a large asemic glyph written over part of the doodle. The words, Mark A/ed, are visible. Cur-ups of faces are placed over sections of the doodle. The centre is the prose poem stanza of free-associated words, with no punctuation. The bottom section of the page is a doodle of faces inter-linked into a distorted cube. Some of the faces are made-up of assemic glyphs. A large black glyph is written over part of the doodle. There is a small cut-up of a bare-chested man looking downwards at the glyph.
Mark A/ed We All unhappy quiet match Age had know step Change given better is learn up way comb mouse A few other passerbys
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