Dadaism (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Dadaism (Basic Art Series 2.0)

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Anti-meaning: Absurdity against the establishment</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom">Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary <strong>Dada </strong>movement took <strong>disgust with the establishment</strong> as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid 1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York posed a radical assault against the politics, social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastation of conflict.<br /><br />Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to <strong>replace logic and reason with the absurd, chaotic, and unpredictable</strong>. Their practice encompassed <strong>experimental theater, games, guttural sound-making, collage, photomontage, chance-based procedures and the “readymade”, </strong>most notoriously Marcel Duchamp's urinal, <em>Fountain</em> (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 <strong>fundamental precursor to conceptual art</strong>.<br /><br />With a selection of key works from some of the most famous proponents of Dada such as <strong>Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, </strong><strong>Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, </strong>and <strong>Man Ray, </strong>this book introduces this urgent, subversive, and determined twentieth century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.</div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div id="series_text" class="margin-bottom"><strong>About the Series:</strong><br />Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre series features: <ul> <li>a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural and social events that took place during that period</li> <li>a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each of which is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and with an interpretation of the respective work, plus a portrait and brief biography of the artist</li> <li>approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul> </div> </div>