Dada

Dada

A movement in visual art, literature, dance, and theatre that flourished in various urban centres around europe (including zurich, berlin and paris) following the first world war and that cultivated an "anti-art" aesthetic and more generally an absurdist stance designed to question and undercut contemporary aesthetic conventions.

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dada

Art history; Visual arts

A movement in visual art, literature, dance, and theatre that flourished in various urban centers around europe (including zurich, berlin and paris) following the first world war ...

dada

Literature; General

Touted by its proponents as anti-art, dada focused on going against artistic norms and conventions.

neo-dada

Art history; General art history

Term sometimes applied to the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in New York in the late 1950s because of their use of collage, assemblage and found materials, and their ...

neo-Dada

Culture; American culture

America witnessed a return of Dadaist practice in the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. A liminal moment in the history of postwar American art, neo-Dada was at once a ...

anti-art

Art history; Visual arts

Works that seek to undermine prevailing standards for the form or content of anything considered “art,” first used to describe the practices and works of the dada movement that ...

daguerreotype

Art history; Visual arts

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architrave

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codex

Art history; Visual arts

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