dada
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːdə/
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dadaísmo
- The performances were largely continuations of the various acts from previous Dada manifestations, but there were some significant new attractions.
The middle one is modern, and the last one is Dada.
- The middle one is modern, and the last one is Dada.
- They were into Dada ISM, which I don't know a lot about, like I don't know it's but it's a philosophical art movement.
Examples
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What makes this action like Dada are the underlying philosophical views and the collage-like actions.
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"The father of Surrealism was Dada," Walter Benjamin once wrote.
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Or, more to the point, what are the dangers of taking a forerunner of Dada at face value?
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Yet, rather than seeing this period as a break with Dada, Richter saw it as fundamentally continuous.
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Recognition of such a model in Dada helps clarify certain aspects of its distinction from Surrealism.
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Think, for example, of the Dada Festival of 1920, held in May at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.
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"Dada is a German Bolshevist affair," proclaimed Richard Huelsenbeck in his history of the Dada movement published in July 1920.
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Again, like other Dadaists, Richter defines Dada as a response to, and even a cure for, the ills of modernity.
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Asco's earliest collaborations included agitational performance pieces, reminiscent of both Dada and '60s street theater.
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The Dada movement challenged traditional artistic values through absurdity and spontaneity.
Synonyms
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An early 20th-century art movement that rejects traditional art and uses nonsense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dada as the art name was chosen as a playful, 'nonsense' sound — one popular story says the artists picked it at random from a dictionary and liked that it sounded like baby talk. That's why dada fits a movement that wanted to break art rules and refuse normal ideas of meaning.