"The Dada movement's outrageous provocations have prompted many to define it as 'anti-art' — a term the Dadaists themselves used. This exhibition argues, however, that Dada's shock tactics were meant less as a wholesale disavowal of art than a complete and radical rethinking of its definitions and rules. Dada held at its core a profound ethical stance against contemporary social and political conditions. Its oppositional strategies — the exploitation of nontraditional artistic materials, mining of mass media, destruction of language, exploration of the unconscious, and cutting and pasting of photo-montage — irrevocably altered perceptions of what qualifies as art, in ways that continue to be powerfully resonant today."
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Miss Umland; coordinator (MoMA) of the Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., 2006
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Dada was an art movement involving visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestos, art theory), theater, and graphic design. Dada concentrated its anti-war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. The art movement began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920.
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