(originated in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916)
Nihilistic movement in the arts
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| Dadaism poster |
- Nihilism- deliberately embraces nothing
- French for- "hobbyhorse"
- symbolizes emphasis on the illogical and the absurd
- Archetypal forms: nonsense poem and the ready-made
- Creative techniques of accident and chance were sustained in Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual, Art and Pop Art (Andy Warhol)
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| Warhol's art / more Dadaism |
Duchamp's "Bicycle......" - tearing down notion of "what is art"?
Tristan Tzara
(Later: Peter Handkey- "Offending the Audience")
collage pastiche
montage assemblage
art by chance, rather than design (i.e., shaking words out of a bag & making something new)
-choreography, poem
FUTURISM (Italy, 1909)
-loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities
2 rival Isms: how do we react?
- Futurists- this is going to save humanity
- Expressionists- all technology is killing humanity
Founder: Marinetti
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| Marinetti |
Concrete Poetry- write poem but also make a usual piece out of it (poem in a shape)
Everything would be in one compound
-Antonio Sant'Elia, 1914: La Citta Nuova
Kinetic Sculpture: static but appears to be moving OR actually does move (i.e. a mobile)
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| Kinetic Sculpture (mobile) |
"Luce" (play), etc., as commentary on change (plays are too long)
Ended after World War I
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