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D Ada i s M I S . . .Cultural Movement
Primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design
Started at Zurich
Began as an anti war response (World War I)
Protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests
Dada was not art, it was "anti-art".
We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the tabula rasa. At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order.
-Marcel Janco
ArtistsHUGo BallhAns RitcherTristan TzaraMarcel Duchamp
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Tristan TzaraRumanian poet wrote the Dada Manifesto in 1918 credited with naming the Dada movement
"I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918"
Jean Arpsculptor, painter, poet. introduced Germany to the movement of Dadaism.
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. “-Jean Arp
Hugo Ballgerman poet and author
Marcel Duchampamerican dadaist
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.” Marcel Duchamp
'Dada is like your hopes: nothinglike your paradise: nothinglike your idols: nothinglike your heroes: nothinglike your artists: nothinglike your religions: nothing'—Francis Picabia