Dada & Surrealism
Dada (c. 1915-22)
- term: “Dada”
- suggests a regression to early childhood
- French --> a child’s wooden [hobby]horse
- first syllables spoken by children learning to talk
- credo: “Everything the artist spits is art”
- context: aftermath of World War I
- challenges established values (moral & aesthetic)
- iconoclastic attitude toward tradition