An artistic and literary movement formed in response to the disasters of World War I (1914–18) and to an emerging modern media and machine culture. Dada artists sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic, favoring strategies of chance, spontaneity, and irreverence. Dada artists experimented with a range of mediums, from collage and photomontage to everyday objects and performance, exploding typical concepts of how art should be made and viewed and what materials could be used. An international movement born in neutral Zurich and New York, Dada rapidly spread to Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Paris, and beyond.
Dada
7 examples
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George Grosz "The Convict" Monteur John Heartfield After Franz Jung's Attempt to Get Him Up on His Feet ("Der Sträfling" Monteur John Heartfield nach Franz Jungs Versuch ihn auf die Beine zu stellen) 1920
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Johannes Baader The Author of the Book Fourteen Letters of Christ in His Home (Der Verfasser das Buches Vierzehn Briefe Christi in seinem Heim) 1920
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Francis Picabia "M'Amenez-y" Paris, November 1919 - January 1920
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp Head 1920
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Hannah Höch Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum (Indische Tänzerin: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum) 1930
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Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel New York, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)
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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed) 1964 (replica of 1923 original)
Magazine
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Man Ray’s Champs Délicieux Turns 100
A photography conservator and a research assistant uncover new findings around the photographer’s 1922 portfolio.Feb 3, 2022 -
Film Vault Summer Camp, Week Three: Dada on Screen
Discover how avant-garde artists fused film and visual art in these hallucinatory shorts.Aug 20, 2020