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    Dada was an international anti-art movement started in Europe during World War I as a protest against bourgeois nationalism and conformity that participants believed had led to the war. Dadaists rejected logic and embraced chaos and irrationality in their artistic works. They believed "reason" and "logic" of capitalist society had led to war, and expressed this rejection through anti-art that aimed to offend conventional art and aesthetics. Dada sought to criticize the times through art that was not an end itself but an opportunity for perception and criticism of contemporary society.

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    Dada was an international anti-art movement started in Europe during World War I as a protest against bourgeois nationalism and conformity that participants believed had led to the war. Dadaists rejected logic and embraced chaos and irrationality in their artistic works. They believed "reason" and "logic" of capitalist society had led to war, and expressed this rejection through anti-art that aimed to offend conventional art and aesthetics. Dada sought to criticize the times through art that was not an end itself but an opportunity for perception and criticism of contemporary society.

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    Dada was an international anti-art movement started in Europe during World War I as a protest against bourgeois nationalism and conformity that participants believed had led to the war. Dadaists rejected logic and embraced chaos and irrationality in their artistic works. They believed "reason" and "logic" of capitalist society had led to war, and expressed this rejection through anti-art that aimed to offend conventional art and aesthetics. Dada sought to criticize the times through art that was not an end itself but an opportunity for perception and criticism of contemporary society.

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    Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America.

    The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the
    movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many
    Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual
    conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.[12]

    Avant-garde circles outside France knew of pre-war Parisian developments. They had seen (or
    participated in) Cubist exhibitions held at Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona (1912), Galerie Der Sturm
    in Berlin (1912), the Armory Show in New York (1913), SVU Mánes in Prague (1914), several
    Jack of Diamonds exhibitions in Moscow and at De Moderne Kunstkring, Amsterdam (between
    1911 and 1915). Futurism developed in response to the work of various artists. Dada subsequently
    combined these approaches.[10][13]

    Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people
    into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to
    reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.[5][6] For example, George Grosz later recalled
    that his Dadaist art was intended as a protest "against this world of mutual destruction."[5]

    According to Hans Richter Dada was not art: it was "anti-art."[12] Dada represented the opposite
    of everything which art stood for. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada
    ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.

    As Hugo Ball expressed it, "For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true
    perception and criticism of the times we live in."[14]

    A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that "Dada philosophy is the sickest,
    most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man." Art
    historians have described Dada as being, in large part, a "reaction to what many of these artists
    saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide."[15]

    Years later, Dada artists described the movement as "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of
    the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything
    in its path... [It was] a systematic work of destruction and demoralization... In the end it became
    nothing but an act of sacrilege."[15]

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