Dadaism

by Dietmar Elger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836505622
• ISBN13: 9783836505628
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.1"