Elger Dietmar - Dadaism - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Emerging amid the brutality of World War I the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid - 1920s artists in Zurich Cologne Hanover Paris and New York launched a radical assault on the politics social values and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastating conflict. Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to replace logic and reason with the absurd chaotic and unpredictable. Their practice encompassed experimental theater games guttural sound - making collage photomontage chance - based procedures and the readymade most notoriously Marcel Duchamp's urinal Fountain (1917). Throughout the Dadaists considered the visual appearance of their work secondary to the ideas and critiques it expressed. In this sense Dada may be seen as a fundamental precursor to conceptual art. With a selection of key works from some of the most famous proponents of Dada such as Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp Hannah H ch Kurt Schwitters Francis Picabia and Man Ray this book introduces this urgent subversive and determined 20th - century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.
Title: Dadaism
Author(s): Elger Dietmar
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836505628
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 1/15/2016
Series: Basic Art
Category: Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada