
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 …
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.
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, 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 …
Dada — Google Arts & Culture
Artistic and literary movement launched in Zurich in 1916 but shared by independent groups in New York, Berlin, Paris, and elsewhere. The Dadaists channelled their revulsion at World War I into...
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dada - New World Encyclopedia
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920.