- Dada Movement Overview and Key Ideas | TheArtStory
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war
- Dada | Definition History | Britannica
Dada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th century
- Dadaism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and were close to the radical far-left The whole point behind Dadaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist declared it to be This was to prove that if everything could be art, then nothing could be art
- Category:Dada - Wikipedia
The movement was a protest of the barbarism of the war; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art The main article for this category is Dada
- A Brief History of Dada - Smithsonian Magazine
Dada’s last hurrah was sounded in Paris in the early 1920s, when Tzara, Ernst, Duchamp and other Dada pioneers took part in a series of exhibitions of provocative art, nude performances,
- What is Dadaism — Movement, Style, and Artists Explained
Dadaism is an art movement which arose in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland, and lasted until the mid 1920s The movement was firmly planted within the avant-garde, and staunchly rejected any norms of the artistic world at the time Pure Dada rebuffs reason, logic, and rationality in favor of chance
- Smarthistory – Dada, an introduction
Berlin Dadaists embraced the tension and images of violence that characterized Germany during and after the war, using absurdity to draw attention to the physical, psychological, and social trauma it produced
- Dada - MoMA
An artistic and literary movement formed in response to the disasters of World War I (1914–18) and to an emerging modern media and machine culture Dada artists sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic, favoring strategies of chance, spontaneity, and irreverence
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