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Summary Dadaism Artists and their artworks
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This document features Duchamp, Man Ray and Hannah Hoch and their artworks. Good for a quick overview of the concept of Dadaism and its big players.
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DADAISM (1915-23) Reaction to World War I
Iconoclastic breaks down symbols
Anarchy, Greek "having no ruler," rejects governmental authority in favor of self-governing
or community (implies chaos and the breakdown of civil order.)
Nihilism, mocked and challenged tradition, notions of art, morals and governing
absurdism, sees humankind’s constant need to search for meaning the lack of any such
(knowable) meaning or purpose.
fountain, Marcel Duchamp Tested the claim of artworks
are accepted in the exhibition.
Got rejected: What is art? Who
decides what art is?
Readymade everyday object –
mass produced, elevated to
the status of an artwork,
pseudonym R. Mutt
Man Ray, Indestructible Metronome with cut-out
object (Or object to be photograph of an eye on a
destroyed), pendulum
Hannah Höch, her feminine tool — the
with the kitchen knife through kitchen knife that is ostensibly
the last Weimar Beer-Belly creating the collage — is being
Cultural Epoch of Germany, used to cut through the
Photomontage & watercolor… (implied masculine) bloated
(Assemblage (montage with and self-indulgent political
3D objects) class
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