Dada came into full bloom in the city of Berlin. The sheer creative drive, aggression, and incendiary political agendas exploded onto the art scene sending ripples across Europe. Artists such as ...

For Hausmann, who was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, realist nature photography became a preferred means of his post-Dada expression, picked up during his sojourns to the North Sea and Baltic ...

The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, ...

Introduction : Fit for active service -- Huelsenbeck's war -- New youth -- Art school Dada -- Men of a different sort -- Noise and smoke -- groszfield, hearthaus, georgemann -- Take Dada seriously -- ...

It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who’d found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for ...

Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century. By Jed Rasula. Basic Books; 365 pages; $29.99. DADA was arguably the most revolutionary artistic movement of the 20th ...

“In Zurich, not involved in the slaughterhouses of the world war, we dedicated ourselves to the fine arts. While in the distance gunfire rumbled, we glued paper, read our works, wrote poetry, and sang ...

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