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Welcome to the wonderful world of DADA!. Although at first glance, Dada can appear to be a rather difficult and confusing movement to understand. If one takes the time look at it in some depth, Im sure that you will discover a movement of not only great significance in the context of Art history. But a movement whose theories and principles are still applicable in the world in which we live today.Having said this. It must be made clear that this website is by no means meant to be exhaustive, and is only really intended to give a brief overview of the movement as whole. None the less I hope you find it interesting.Dada was an art movement that sprang up in ZurichSwitzerland roughly around 1916. It emerged largelyin response to the atrocities and insanity of WorldWar 1, and sought to find and experiment with new forms of expression in an attempt to rejuvenate theAfter the end of the war in 1918, Dada spread to Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover), where it was to rebel against the increasingly militaristic andnationalistic policies of the emerging far right astypified by the eventual rise to power of Hitler's Nazi party.Dada was important in an Art historical context in that it paved the way and
It's language which had been used in a logical and sensible manner by statesmen of the day to try and justify the insanity, and sell the essentially illogical politics of the War to the people. Swiss DadaSwitzerland in 1914, as it was to be later inin 1945 with World war 2, was a neutral country during World war 1. German Dada After 1917, Germany was understandably ina terrible state of disrepair. Fear and hunger were the dominant factors in which the 'minds of men were concentrating more and more on questions of naked existence'. It is for this reason that this website will largely concentrate on these two areas of the Dada movement. Particularly artists who knowingly professed 'art for art's sake'. As a result, the Dadaist's went on the offensive against anything associated with society at the time. It was the Dadaists intention that by doing this they would in some way hold up a mirror to the world, that would perhaps reflect the insanity of what was taking place with the War. It was a lack of respect for the war and for a society capable of spawning such a war that became the motivating force behind the Dada movement. Richard Huelsenbeck in returning to Berlin in order to pursue hismedical studies in 1917 immediately wrote a strident manifestoto redirect Dada. Who, regardless of circumstances,wanted to go on producing what had been 'noble and beautiful'in the past, and who were creating spurious and mendacious art,serving to gloss over the crimes of the present, thereby aidingand abetting the brutalization of mankind. In manyways it was inevitable given the dynamics and volatility of the place and time that something would happen, particularly given the way that Zurich had become a melting pot for dissent and ideas about the War. Where society favored order the Dadaists favored chaos. It is hard for us now tocomprehend, or even tryto imagine the horrors, bothmental and physical inflicted upon an entire generation of young men (mainly 18-25 year olds), sent to the front to fight in World War 1 (1914-1918).
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