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Definition:
The term Dada doesn't actually mean anything - it is a nonsense sound, and that is
exactly why it was chosen. By connoting nothing in particular, it can be used to mean
everything and nothing at the same time.
The Dada movement was a product of cynical, anti-war artists who, in the aftermath of World War I, were looking for ways to express the absurd, the irrational and the nonsensical - especially insofar as that would represent an attack on so-called "high" culture and artistic elitism. According to contemporary reports, the name was selected by someone pointing at random to a word in the dictionary and coming up with the French diminutive for "hobbyhorse."
According to the dadaists, traditional religion, culture, politics and morality were responsible for dragging Europe into a senseless and destructive war. As a result, they wanted to use art to challenge those traditional notions and, eventually, sweep them away. But first they needed to eliminate the aspect of those traditions which existed in art itself.
Most consider Dada to be a forerunner or surrealism.
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