Dadaism (Dada) is an anti-establishment avant-garde movement founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 as a reaction to the horror and irrationality of the First World War. It rejected reason, logic and prevailing standards of art and beauty in favor of nonsense, chance and deliberate absurdity, expressed through manifestos, sound poetry, collage and performance centered on the Cabaret Voltaire. Its leading literary voices, among them Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball, carried the movement from Zurich to Paris, Berlin and New York before it fed directly into Surrealism by the mid-1920s. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Period, From (Year) Period, To (Year)Commonly closed at the Paris Dada movement's merger into Surrealism; some national and artistic offshoots continued informally after this date. Dadaism
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Tzara was a founding figure of Zurich Dada and its most visible polemicist, publishing the movement's influential second manifesto in 1918.
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The article discusses Tzara's own declaration that Dada resists fixed meaning, a defining stance of the movement.
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Tzara's 1918 Dada Manifesto is one of the movement's defining texts.
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Dada or Dadaism was an international art movement that developed in the context of World War I
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The origins of the Dada movement is commonly accepted by most art historians and those who lived during this period to have identified with the Cabaret Voltaire (housed inside the Holländische Meierei bar in Zürich) co-founded by poet and cabaret singer Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball.
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By 1924 in Paris, Dada was melding into Surrealism, and artists had gone on to other ideas and movements.
- Associated With: Dada Manifesto 1918, Manifestos section
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