Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada
movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point.
From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover,
Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on the politics,
social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as
complicit in the devastating conflict. Dada artists shared no
distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal
structures as much as artistic standards and to replace logic and
reason with the absurd, chaotic, and unpredictable. Their practice
encompassed experimental theater, games, guttural sound-making,
collage, photomontage, chance-based procedures, and the
"readymade," most notoriously Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Fountain
(1917). Throughout, the Dadaists considered the visual appearance
of their work secondary to the ideas and critiques it expressed. In
this sense, Dada may be seen as a fundamental precursor to
conceptual art. With a selection of key works from some of the most
famous proponents of Dada such as Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp,
Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray, this
book introduces this urgent, subversive, and determined
20th-century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.
About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has
evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art History series features:
approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions a
detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the most
important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread
with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as
a portrait and brief biography of the artist
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