Editing Tristan Tzara (section)

===Dada stagnation===
[[File:St-Julien-le-Pauvre & houses.jpg|thumb|260px|[[Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre]], site of the 1921 "Dada excursion"]]
By 1921, Tzara had become involved in conflicts with other figures in the movement, whom he claimed had parted with the spirit of Dada.<ref>Cernat, pp. 127-128; Richter, pp. 122-123.</ref> He was targeted by the Berlin-based Dadaists, in particular by Huelsenbeck and Serner, the former of whom was also involved in a conflict with [[Raoul Hausmann]] over leadership status.<ref name="hrich123"/> According to Richter, tensions between Breton and Tzara had surfaced in 1920, when Breton first made known his wish to do away with musical performances altogether and alleged that the Romanian was merely repeating himself.<ref>Richter, pp. 182-183, 192–193.</ref> The Dada shows themselves were by then such common occurrences that audiences expected to be insulted by the performers.<ref name="rcard530"/>

A more serious crisis occurred in May, when Dada organized a mock trial of [[Maurice Barrès]], whose early affiliation with the Symbolists had been shadowed by his [[antisemitism]] and [[reactionary]] stance: [[Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes]] was the prosecutor, Aragon and Soupault the defense attorneys, with Tzara, Ungaretti, [[Benjamin Péret]] and others as witnesses (a [[mannequin]] stood in for Barrès).<ref>Richter, pp. 184-186.</ref> Péret immediately upset Picabia and Tzara by refusing to make the trial an absurd one, and by introducing a political subtext with which Breton nevertheless agreed.<ref>Richter, pp. 184, 186.</ref> In June, Tzara and Picabia clashed with each other, after Tzara expressed an opinion that his former mentor was becoming too radical.<ref>Richter, pp. 184-185.</ref> During the same season, Breton, Arp, Ernst, [[Maja Kruschek]] and Tzara were in Austria, at [[Imst]], where they published their last manifesto as a group, ''Dada au grand air'' ("Dada in the Open Air") or ''Der Sängerkrieg in Tirol'' ("The Battle of the Singers in [[German Tyrol|Tyrol]]").<ref>Richter, pg. 186 (illustration 96)</ref> Tzara also visited [[History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Czechoslovakia]], where he reportedly hoped to gain adherents to his cause.<ref>Cernat, pg. 128</ref>

Also in 1921, Ion Vinea wrote an article for the Romanian newspaper ''[[Adevărul]]'', arguing that the movement had exhausted itself (although, in his letters to Tzara, he continued to ask his friend to return home and spread his message there).<ref>Cernat, pp. 127-128.</ref> After July 1922, Marcel Janco rallied with Vinea in editing ''[[Contimporanul]]'', which published some of Tzara's earliest poems but never offered space to any Dadaist manifesto.<ref>Cernat, pp. 130, 138, 153.</ref> Reportedly, the conflict between Tzara and Janco had a personal note: Janco later mentioned "some dramatic quarrels" between his colleague and him.<ref>Răileanu & Carassou, pg. 151</ref> They avoided each other for the rest of their lives and Tzara even struck out the dedications to Janco from his early poems.<ref>Cernat, pp. 115, 137.</ref> [[Julius Evola]] also grew disappointed by the movement's total rejection of tradition and began his personal search for an alternative, pursuing a path which later led him to [[Western esotericism|esotericism]] and fascism.<ref name="buddevo"/>