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Monday, October 18, 2010

Friday 10/15/10 Lecture

Dada, Surrealism, & After

Dada
began in WWI
Protest against, war, society, old social order

Contributions
Appropriation (stealing)
Assemblage, Construction
Conceptual art
Chance

Some Dada artists:
Jean Arp
Hugo Ball - 1916 opened a cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland
Kurt Schwitters
Marcel Duchamp

the group moved to Berlin in 1919
Paris 1924 morphed into surrealism

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