“[ Tinguely is a] Meta-Dadaist… [who had] fulfilled certain ideas of ours, notably the idea of motion.”

— Richard Huelsenbeck

Quote of w:Richard Huelsenbeck (1961), as cited in Calvin Tomkins (1965) Ahead of the game: four versions of avant-garde, p. 160

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German poet 1892–1974

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