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Nicki
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#21659 2007-09-08 08:15 GMT |
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If you could provide links or comments about this movement it would be greatly apriciated.
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LeadTheRave
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#21660 2007-09-08 08:21 GMT |
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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, and 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 influenced later styles, movements, and groups including Surrealism, Pop Art, and Fluxus.
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CaptainCrunch
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#21661 2007-09-08 10:05 GMT |
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The Dada movement started during and immediately after World War 1 in the neutral city of Zurich to other European capital cities and to New York, was largely a response to the enormous death toll exacted by the war and the new machine-age technologies that had created these horrors, Dada artists (also poets and writers) blamed modern society 's "'rational" developments and inventions for bringing society to the brink of self-destruction. They responded with art that was anything but rational. Dada was playful, absurd, confrontational and unconventional, or focussed on works of chance like automatic drawing. Famous Dadaists include Jean Arp and Kurt Schwitters (Germany ) ,Marcel Duchamp (France).and Man Ray (USA)
The name Dada meant a variety of things - none of them important - in different languages:including 'hobby-horse' in French and 'yes,Yes" in Rumanian. Here are two good links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada http://www.dadart.com/dadaism/dada/020-history-dada-movement.html |
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