| noun | 1. An early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd. |
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 |  | | "I didn't appreciate Dada art until I visited the Marcel Duchamp exhibition." |
|  | | "The Italian film festival had many Dada-inspired entries." |
|  | | "This form of absurd art got its start in France in the 1920s, but dada still influences artists today." |
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 | French, early 20th century |
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 | As an artistic movement, Dada (or Dadaism) took off in early 1920s Paris. This appreciation of nonsense, chaos, and the absurd is thought to be a rebound against the effects of World War I and a capitalist society. ... | Continue Reading |
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