Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral
Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to
1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature
(poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design,
which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the
prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.
Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and
publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art,
politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement was a
protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois
interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what
they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art
and everyday society. The movement influenced later styles,
movements, and groups including
surrealism, Pop Art
and Fluxus. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult
to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as
they were constantly moving from one place to another.
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