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Bookmark or Share- Dada Movement Overview and Key Ideas | TheArtStoryDada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war.
- A Brief History of Dada | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian MagazineThis new, irrational art movement would be named Dada. It got its name, according to Richard Huelsenbeck, a German artist living in Zurich, when he and Ball came upon the word in a French-German...
- Dada | MoMAAn artistic and literary movement formed in response to the disasters of World War I (1914–18) and to an emerging modern media and machine culture. Dada artists sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic, favoring strategies of chance, spontaneity, and irreverence.
- Dada | Definition & History | BritannicaDada, nihilistic and antiaesthetic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, Switzerland; New York City; Berlin, Cologne, and Hannover, Germany; and Paris in the early 20th century. Hugo Ball, 1916. Several explanations have been given by various members of the movement as to how it received its name.
- Introduction to Dada (article) | Dada | Khan AcademyArt historian Leah Dickerman has demonstrated that Dada can best be understood by looking at its distinct manifestations in six urban centers. The Dada movement officially began in Zurich, a city in politically neutral Switzerland where many artists and intellectuals fled during World War I.
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