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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. 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.

  3. 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 …

  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 - 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 …

  6. DadaGoogle 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...

  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. 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

  10. Dada - Tate

    Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often …