Dadaism (Basic Art Series 2.0)
By Dietmar Elger.
Description
Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against the politics, social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastation of conflict.Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to replace logi...
ISBN(s)
3836505622, 9783836505628
