Dada

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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.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Dada canonical 94
Dada movement 12
Dadaism 7

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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
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
New York City
Paris
Zurich
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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Emmy Hennings memberOf Dada
this entity surface form: Dada movement
Jean Crotti movement Dada
Travesties subjectMatter Dada
this entity surface form: Dadaism
R. Mutt 1917 movement Dada
The Blind Man (Dada journal) movement Dada
subject surface form: The Blind Man
Groß movement Dada
subject surface form: George Grosz
Merzbow basedOn Dada
this entity surface form: Dadaism
Merzbow influencedBy Dada
Raoul Hausmann movement Dada
Christo influencedBy Dada
John Heartfield (in some editions) movement Dada
subject surface form: John Heartfield
John Heartfield (in some editions) influencedBy Dada
subject surface form: John Heartfield
this entity surface form: Dadaism