![]() ![]() ![]() Despite lacking a stable definition, Dada has been a major force in Western culture. ![]() Since the mercurial collection of artists who comprised the movement often offered contradictory definitions, both the term paper version as well as the stretched metaphor are oddly accurate. The metaphor-stretcher might say Dada was The Velvet Underground of its time in its short life, few experienced Dada - yet it changed everything. WHAT WAS DADA? The term paper definition might describe it as a between-the-wars avant-garde art movement started with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, whose challenge to Victorian cultural conventions, penchant for hijinks, and joyous negation would start, shape, inspire, and create space for many of the 20th century’s subsequent experimental movements, before flaming out a few years later in Paris. ![]()
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