Dadaism
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːdəˌɪzəm/
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dadaísmo
- Artists involved in Dadaism often used absurdity to challenge societal norms and provoke thought.
- movement known as Dadaism
Examples
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Walter Benjamin diagnosed this early on in an extraordinary analysis of Dadaism in his 1936 artwork essay.
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And the whole idea behind Dadaism and surrealism is this was a reaction to the absurdity of World War One.
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Fundamentally, Dadaism is about making, about producing art in changed historical circumstances.
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Examines form as discourse in photo montage work by artists linked with Dadaism.
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After all, avant-garde movements such as Marinetti's Futurism and much of Dadaism are also dedicated to the elimination of the museum and its contents.
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Dadaism, carried out with caterwauling and derisive laughter, was a breakout from a narrow, arrogant, overrated milieu that, hovering in the air between the classes, did not recognize any shared responsibility for the life of the collective.
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Dadaism was an avant-garde art movement that rejected traditional aesthetics and embraced Dadaism.
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The chaotic and playful nature of Dadaism shook the foundations of conventional art in the early 20th century.
Synonyms
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An art movement from early 1900s that made art from everyday things and rejected normal art rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dadaism = Dada (transparent) = Dada + ism
Formed by the productive suffix '-ism' attached to the movement name 'Dada', yielding the movement/ideology noun in a regular and predictable way.
Etymology
Dadaism comes from the playful French word dada, which means 'hobbyhorse' and also sounds like baby talk 'dada'. One famous story says the artists even chose the name at random from a dictionary, and that fits the movement: Dadaism is art that uses 'nonsense' and shock to reject normal art rules.