You might be familiar with the term Dadaism from your Art Humanities course, or from a plaque on a museum wall describing a piece that you squinted at and thought, “There is no way this counts as art.

It began with a longing to make the world a better place. While WWI raged, claiming what would amount to tens of millions of lives, it decimated the fantasy of order, leaving chaos and, as some would ...

A century ago, international artists and writers met in Zurich to form a new movement, Dadaism. Their anti-art was a response to an ever-present issue: the madness of war. Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and ...

While Dadaism did give rise to Surrealism, the artistic movement hardly invented absurdity. In fact, a short-lived phenomenon called Les Arts Incohérents was spawned in the late 19th century in Paris, ...

When Dadaism began, it was primarily a response to World War I, to depressing nationalism and audacious capitalism. Defying the falsely perceived rationality of those in power, Dada artists used ...

The mayor of Lawrence Kansas has proclaimed International Dadaism Month. But in the spirit of the absurdist movement, celebration dates are spread throughout the year. This week Lawrence, Kansas, ...

The cultural movement may be suited to the workplace but successful Dada is hard to achieve DADAISM HAS arrived in the office. The movement, which was big around the time of the first World War and ...