Dada

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art movement avant-garde movement cultural movement literary movement

Dada was an early 20th-century avant-garde art and literary movement that rejected traditional aesthetics and logic through absurdity, chance, and anti-bourgeois protest.

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Dada movement 2
Dadaism 1
New York Dada 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement ⓘ
avant-garde movement ⓘ
cultural movement ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Switzerland ⓘ
endTime 1924 ⓘ
foundedAt Cabaret Voltaire ⓘ
foundedBy Emmy Hennings ⓘ
Hans Arp ⓘ
Hugo Ball ⓘ
Marcel Janco ⓘ
Tristan Tzara ⓘ
foundedInCity Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ
foundedInCountry Switzerland ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Dada ⓘ
surface form: Dada movement

Dada ⓘ
surface form: Dadaism
hasCharacteristic absurdity ⓘ
anti-art ⓘ
anti-bourgeois ⓘ
anti-war ⓘ
iconoclasm ⓘ
irrationality ⓘ
nonsense ⓘ
political protest ⓘ
rejection of logic ⓘ
rejection of traditional aesthetics ⓘ
satire ⓘ
spontaneity ⓘ
use of chance ⓘ
hasKeyEvent Berlin Dada Fair ⓘ
Zurich Dada activities ⓘ
founding of Cabaret Voltaire ⓘ
publication of Dada manifestos ⓘ
hasKeyFigure Emmy Hennings ⓘ
Francis Picabia ⓘ
Hannah Höch ⓘ
Hans Arp ⓘ
Hugo Ball ⓘ
Hans Arp ⓘ
surface form: Jean Arp

Jean Crotti ⓘ
Kurt Schwitters ⓘ
Man Ray ⓘ
Marcel Duchamp ⓘ
Max Ernst ⓘ
Raoul Hausmann ⓘ
Richard Huelsenbeck ⓘ
Sophie Taeuber-Arp ⓘ
Tristan Tzara ⓘ
hasKeyWork Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany ⓘ
Fountain ⓘ
Karawane ⓘ
L.H.O.O.Q. ⓘ
surface form: LHOOQ

Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age) ⓘ
Merzbau ⓘ
hasMainLocation Berlin ⓘ
Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSubMovement Berlin Dada Fair ⓘ
surface form: Berlin Dada

Cologne Dada ⓘ
Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: New York Dada

Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Paris Dada

Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Zurich Dada
influenced Conceptual art ⓘ
Fluxus ⓘ
Mail art ⓘ
Neo-Dada ⓘ
Performance art ⓘ
Pop art ⓘ
Punk subculture ⓘ
Situationist International ⓘ
Surrealism ⓘ
influencedBy Cubism ⓘ
Expressionism ⓘ
Futurism ⓘ
World War I ⓘ
anarchism ⓘ
nihilism ⓘ
language English ⓘ
French ⓘ
German ⓘ
movementDomain collage ⓘ
graphic design ⓘ
literature ⓘ
manifestos ⓘ
painting ⓘ
performance art ⓘ
photomontage ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ
sound art ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ
opposed bourgeois culture ⓘ
militarism ⓘ
nationalism ⓘ
traditional art institutions ⓘ
startTime 1916 ⓘ
usedTechnique assemblage ⓘ
chance operations ⓘ
collage ⓘ
improvised performance ⓘ
nonsense poetry ⓘ
photomontage ⓘ
ready-made ⓘ
sound poetry ⓘ

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subject surface form: Fountain
subject surface form: Large Glass
Dada → hasAlternativeName → Dada ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dadaism
Dada → hasAlternativeName → Dada ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dada movement
Dada → hasSubMovement → Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zurich Dada
Dada → hasSubMovement → Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Paris Dada
Dada → hasSubMovement → Dada self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: New York Dada
this entity surface form: Dada movement
Pop art → influencedBy → Dada ⓘ
Surrealism → influencedBy → Dada ⓘ
subject surface form: Fountain
George Grosz → movement → Dada ⓘ
Joan Miró → movement → Dada ⓘ
subject surface form: Large Glass
Marcel Duchamp → movement → Dada ⓘ