{"product_id":"9783836505628-dadaism","title":"Dadaism","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDive into Dada, the defiant 20th-century movement that declared an all-out attack on society’s politics, values, and cultural conformity. With a selection of key works from such leading Dada proponents as Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray, this book introduces this urgent, subversive movement and its lasting influence on modern art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary \u003cstrong\u003eDada \u003c\/strong\u003emovement took \u003cstrong\u003edisgust with the establishment\u003c\/strong\u003e as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on the politics, social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastating conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to \u003cstrong\u003ereplace logic and reason with the absurd, chaotic, and unpredictable\u003c\/strong\u003e. Their practice encompassed \u003cstrong\u003eexperimental theater, games, guttural sound-making, collage, photomontage, chance-based procedures, and the “readymade,” \u003c\/strong\u003emost notoriously Marcel Duchamp’s urinal, \u003cem\u003eFountain\u003c\/em\u003e (1917). Throughout, the Dadaists considered the visual appearance of their work secondary to the ideas and critiques it expressed. In this sense, Dada may be seen as a \u003cstrong\u003efundamental precursor to conceptual art\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With a selection of key works from some of the most famous proponents of Dada such as \u003cstrong\u003eTristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eMan Ray, \u003c\/strong\u003ethis book introduces this urgent, subversive, and determined 20th-century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810575265889,"sku":"9783836505628","price":15.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33976403.jpg?v=1752472694","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783836505628-dadaism","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}