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Dada
Anti-art movement born in Zurich in 1916 that answered the First World War with nonsense poetry, chance, photomontage and readymades.
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Dada began at the Cabaret Voltaire, a Zurich nightclub opened in February 1916 by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, where war exiles performed sound poems in costume. Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp joined the circle. Their target was a culture of reason and nationalism they blamed for the slaughter, and their tools were absurdity, chance and provocation.
The movement took different forms in different cities. In Berlin, Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann cut up magazines into photomontages, as in Höch's Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919–20), and George Grosz drew savage caricatures. Kurt Schwitters in Hanover made collages from rubbish under the name Merz. In New York, Marcel Duchamp submitted a signed urinal, Fountain (1917), to an exhibition, while Man Ray and Francis Picabia made deadpan objects and mock machine drawings. By the early 1920s much of Dada's energy had passed, in Paris, into Surrealism.
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