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  1. Dada | Definition & History | Britannica

    Nov 27, 2025 · 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 …

  2. What is Dada? - MoMA

    Dada’s subversive and revolutionary ideals emerged from the activities of a small group of artists and poets in Zurich, eventually cohering into a set of strategies and philosophies adopted by a loose …

  3. 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.

  4. 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 …

  5. Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement

    Aug 5, 2024 · The Dada period rebelled against the dominant political and cultural narrative. Here are major Dadaist paintings, sculptures, and collages.

  6. A brief history of Dada - Christie's

    Feb 26, 2024 · How Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp made Dada an art movement that mocked Europe's post-WW1 artistic and social conventions

  7. Dada (Dadaism) Art Movement – History, Artists and Artwork – Artlex

    Dada (or Dadaism) is an avant-garde literary and artistic movement of the 20 th Century, developed between the 1916 and 1922, as a revolutionary and critical rejection to the brutality of the First World …

  8. DADA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of DADA is a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values; also : the art and literature produced by this movement.

  9. Dadaism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

    Cologne Dada (1919–22) emerged as a complex double pivot between wartime and postwar Dada with a later turn from Dada to Surrealism. Dada was both stimulated and suppressed by the dire …

  10. Dadaism Definition, History, and Famous Dada Artists

    Sep 29, 2022 · Dada was an artistic and literary movement in Europe and the United States that began in the early twentieth century during the cultural and social upheaval following the first World War.