artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct. (p. 933)
An artistic movement which began in Germany during World War I and which sought to suppress the logical relationship between idea and statement. The incongruity, nonsense, and conscious madness of their production was a response to the insanity of war.
a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
A nihilistic , anti art, anti everything movement resulting from the social , psychological , and political dislocations of WWI.
20th century art movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and art forms It produced art works which were nihilistic or reflected a negative attitude toward social values but were at the same time absurd and playful.
A short-lived WWI European movement in arts and literature based on deliberate irrationality and the negation of traditional artistic values. (See Poems of Chance)
An art style founded by Hans Arp in Zurich after WW1 which challenged the established canons of art, thoughts and morality etc. Disgusted with the war and society in general, Dadaist expressed their feelings by creating "non-art." The term Dada, nonsense or baby-talk term, symbolizes the loss of meaning in the European culture. Dada art is difficult to interpret since there is no common foundation.
A term used to describe a nihilist form of modern art. The word "dada" is a child's term for "hobbyhorse" in French and was picked at random from a dictionary by the original group of dada practitioners. Beginning in Zurich in 1916, with centers of activity in Berlin and Paris as well, dada was based on the principles of deliberate irrationality, anarchy, cynicism, and the rejection of the conventional laws of beauty and social organization. Dada is art designed to force viewers to question aesthetic conventions by shocking or confounding them. Unusual materials were often used; Marcel Duchamp, for example, displayed a urinal turned upside down and titled "Fountain." The dadaists disbanded in 1922, many of them becoming part of other modern art movements, particularly surrealism.
A western European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) having as its program the discovery of authentic reality through the abolition of traditional cultural and aesthetic forms by a technique of comic derisions in which irrationality, chance and intuition were the guiding principle. Jean Arp, Max Ernst.