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Dadaist

Dadaist

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A person who creates or supports Dada art that rejects usual art rules
  • noun
  • /ˈdɑːdəɪst/
translation icon : dadaísta
  • "Montage is the technique the Berlin Dadaists deployed in their efforts to transform the production and reception of works of art.
  • Dadaist film
  • work of other Dadaists

Britain has been an open war with the Dadaists.

Examples

  • We Dadaists were forced to look for something that would re-establish our humanity.

    Academic text (2003)

  • "What did the Dadaists do?" ask Grosz and Wieland Herzfelde in their 1925 pamphlet.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Certainly, it is the film most often privileged in commentaries on Dadaist film.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Why, therefore, did Richter believe his search for a universal language through his abstract films to be Dadaist?

    Academic text (2003)

  • For that reason, the contents and, likewise, the media of Dadaist pictures and products can be extraordinarily varied.

    Academic text (2003)

  • I am not claiming that the Dadaists themselves necessarily had read and were responding directly to Lenin's polemic.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The practice would continue with the Dadaists and proliferate in the late twentieth century, eventually becoming a cornerstone of conceptual art.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Again, like other Dadaists, Richter defines Dada as a response to, and even a cure for, the ills of modernity.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Foster's essay reveals how mimetic transference allows the Dadaist to parody the symbolic order of his time and reveal its corruption and failures.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Many famous Dadaists, like Marcel Duchamp, challenged conventional notions of art.

Surface Forms

Dadaist singular
Dadaists plural

Morphology

Dadaist = Dada (transparent) = Dada + ist

Formed by adding the agent/relational suffix '-ist' to 'Dada', yielding 'a person associated with Dada', which is directly inferable if the base is known.

Etymology

Dadaist comes from Dada, a name picked by a group of artists that may come from a French child's 'hobbyhorse' or a baby sound like 'dada'. A Dadaist is a person who makes or supports art full of nonsense and who rejects the usual rules of art.