History of Design
The dada movement
Ahmad Nabil
Student ID: 137499 Max Ernst - At the rendezvous of friends 1922
Seated from left to right: René Crevel, Max Ernst, Dostoievsky, Theodore Fraenkel, Jean Paulhan, Benjamin Peret, Johannes Baargeld, Robert Desnos. Standing: Philippe Soupault, Jean Arp, Max Morise, Raphael, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Andre Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Gala Eluard
Dada Movement
Intellectual and artistic movement that appeared in New York and Zurich (1916), spread throughout Europe until 1923 and exercised, through its subversive practice, a decisive influence on various avant-garde movements. (We also say dadaism.)
Dada, an international movement of artists and writers, was born of an intense distaste for the war, which, in his view, marked the collapse of civilizations, culture and reason. Terrorist, provocateur, iconoclast, refusing any ideological, moral or artistic constraint, he advocates confusion, demoralization, absolute doubt and releases the virtues of spontaneity, kindness, joy of living. Paradoxically, its activity of deconstruction and destruction of languages (verbal and plastic) is reflected in sustainable works that open up some major paths of contemporary art.
The Dada movement: From anti-art to art Dada was much more a response to a historical, social, political situation than to a
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It is built on an alternation of interviews of personalities who participated in this movement: Christian SCHAD, Richard HUELSENBECK, Marcel JANCO, Hans RICHTER and Julius EVOLA, founder of Bleu magazine in Italy and Gabrielle BUFFET PICABIA. There are many illustrations of the works of the time.
Dada in New York
Meanwhile, in New York, was another episode of the drama, with the arrival, in 1915, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp in the American