Maria Stavrinaki, Dada Presentism (image courtesy of Stanford University Press) Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces. The ...

“In Zurich, not involved in the slaughterhouses of the world war, we dedicated ourselves to the fine arts. While in the distance gunfire rumbled, we glued paper, read our works, wrote poetry, and sang ...

Horrified by the slaughter of the First World War, the Dadaists espoused irrationality to ridicule the logic that had led to war. But Dada’s influence has stretched far past 1918 1 March 2016 ...

Unreason reigned supreme in Zurich on 5 February 1916 as Dada made its debut at the Cabaret Voltaire. B y February 1916 Lenin was staying in a shabby quarter of Zurich. He lived next to a butcher’s on ...

MEXICO CITY — The immeasurable importance of Dada, which arose as a reaction to the unprecedented violence of WWI, is especially important to evoke during this moment of post-truth and “alternative ...

But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves, until now. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (on ...