The roots of Dada lie in pre-war avant-garde. Still others speculate that the word might have been chosen to evoke a similar meaning (or no meaning at all) in any language, reflecting the movement's internationalism. Others note that it suggests the first words of a child, evoking a childishness and absurdity that appealed to the group. on 6 February 1916, in the Café de la Terrasse in Zürich. Jean Arp wrote that Tristan Tzara invented the word at 6 p.m. There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name a common story is that the German artist Richard Huelsenbeck slid a paper knife (letter-opener) at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with radical left-wing and far-left politics. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. the mid 1920s.ĭeveloped in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Cover of the first edition of the publication Dada, Tristan Tzara Zürich, 1917ĭada ( / ˈ d ɑː d ɑː/) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (c.
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