"Before Dada was there, there was Dada"
Dada was not exclusively an artistic movement - literary, musically, political and philosophical
as well as - anti artistic, provocative, literary, playfully musical.
Dada was at its height between 1916 and 1920"s in Zurich but was a broad and international movement.
Dadaism was a reaction to the international upheavals at the time. War and Industrialization changed the way people made and thought about art.
I 1916 Switzerland was a neutral island within the battlefields of Europe.
Artists and pacifists made there way there to escape conscription.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
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