
Dada | Definition & History | Britannica
Jan 9, 2026 · 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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
What Is Dadaism and Where Did it Start? - TheCollector
May 31, 2023 · Dadaism was a seismic art movement from the early 20th century that began in Zurich, before spreading throughout Europe. Dadaism was an avant-garde German art movement that …
International Dada Archive
Founded in 1979, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of documentation and …
A Brief History of Dada - Smithsonian Magazine
Dada’s last hurrah was sounded in Paris in the early 1920s, when Tzara, Ernst, Duchamp and other Dada pioneers took part in a series of exhibitions of provocative art, nude performances,...
Dada: The Art of Rebellion that Shook the World
May 13, 2025 · Dada is a radical art movement that erupted in Zurich in 1916, challenging the foundations of Western art and culture. Born in the chaotic aftermath of World War I, Dada rejected …
Dada, an introduction – Smarthistory
Berlin Dadaists embraced the tension and images of violence that characterized Germany during and after the war, using absurdity to draw attention to the physical, psychological, and social trauma it …
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