<ggg> I really like Dada. The piece that comes to mind instantly is that one... great title I forget, artist I forget. LOL! That's pretty amusing, because what I do recall is that the piece is big panes of glass, and the artist (so the story goes) dropped the piece and the glass cracked and he said, "Cool" and left it like that.
The fact that I recall that, and don't recall the artist, proves that the work was Dada!
Let's see if I can find it...
Yup. Marcel Duchamp was the dude.
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Dada (French: "hobby-horse"), nihilistic movement in the arts that flourished primarily in Zürich, New York City, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, and Hannover, Ger. in the early 20th century. Several explanations have been given by various members of the movement as to how it received its name. According to the most widely accepted account, the name was adopted at Hugo Ball's Cabaret (Café) Voltaire, in Zürich, during one of the meetings held in 1916 by a group of young artists and war resisters that included Jean Arp, Richard Hülsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Emmy Hennings; when a paper knife inserted into a French-German dictionary pointed to the word dada, this word was seized upon by the group as appropriate for their anti-aesthetic creations and protest activities, which were engendered by disgust for bourgeois values and despair over World War I. A precursor of what was to be called the Dada movement, and ultimately its leading member, was Marcel Duchamp, who in 1913 created his first ready-made (now lost), the "Bicycle Wheel," consisting of a wheel mounted on the seat of a stool.
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and another very cool link! Art Books are Dead!
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