Dada was an anti-art movement that emerged during the First World War, among artists and writers who had fled to neutral Zurich. It took shape at the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub opened by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, where performers staged absurd poems, noise music and masks. Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp and others joined them, and the group reacted to the war, which they saw as the product of a corrupt rational culture, by rejecting logic and conventional taste. Marcel Duchamp sent a urinal, titled Fountain, to an exhibition in New York in 1917, while Berlin Dadaists such as Hannah Hoch made photomontages. Dada led directly to Surrealism.
Before and after
- 1910Construction of Pergamon Museum
- 1910Founding of S.C. Corinthians Paulista
- from 1910 to 1918Kingdom of Montenegro
- 1910Founding of Instituto Federal da Bahia
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
- from 1910 to 1917Battles of the Isonzo
- 12 January 1910Discovery of Great January comet of 1910
- 19 February 1910Construction of Old Trafford
- 23 March 1910Birth of Akira Kurosawa
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- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- c. 1860sImpressionism
- 26 November 1865Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
The era
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