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Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry, and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.
Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsense word.
Eljer Co. Highest Quality Two-Fired Vitreous China Catalogue 1918 Bedfordshire No. 700. Marcel Duchamp had arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain and had become involved with Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Beatrice Wood (amongst others) in the creation of an anti-rational, anti-art, proto-Dada cultural movement in New York City.
Dada: Touted by its proponents as anti-art, the Dada avant-garde focused on going against artistic norms and conventions [95] Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara: Imaginism: An avantgardist post-Russian Revolution of 1917 poetic movement that created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images [96]
Marcel Janco (German: [maʁˈsɛl ˈjaŋkoː], French: [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ko]; common rendition [a] of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu [1] [marˈtʃel ˈherman ˈjaŋku]; 24 May 1895 – 21 April 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist.
Yves Klein (April 28, 1928 – June 6, 1962) (see Neo-Dada) Hans Leybold (April 2, 1892 – September 8, 1914) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944)
Dada (sometimes called Dadaism) is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design.The movement was a protest of the barbarism of the war; its works were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art.
The performances staged by Dada were often meant to popularize its principles, and Dada continued to draw attention on itself by hoaxes and false advertising, announcing that the Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin was going to appear on stage at its show, [49] or that its members were going to have their heads shaved or their hair cut off on ...