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What does dadaism mean?

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  1. A cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, involving visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestos, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti-war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.
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There is an inherent pitfall in such movements as surrealism, Dadaism, and absurdism.
Usually, dance excursions into Dadaism or Absurdism are deliberately, even daringly fanciful, with an emphasis on highly colorful costuming and decor.
In the book, Nichols offers a close reading of the conceptual accounts of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism.
Dadaism was an art rebellion, a backlash against the status quo, a breaking free of constraints and conventions.
Constructivism, suprematism, the Bauhaus, Dadaism, or surrealism fascinated the new generation as if these tendencies were contemporary and not historical movements.
He arrived in Berlin in 1920, where he was influenced by Dadaism, Suprematism, and particularly Constructivism.

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