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Hugo Ball Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawane"
1916
"I shall be reading poems that are meant to dispense with conventional language... I don't want words that other people have invented... I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own."
-Hugo Ball, From The Dada Manifesto |
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| the term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th century. |
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Readymade...
When modifying objects to created readymade, for example by penning mustache and goatee on the color reproduction of the Mona Lisa, "assisted" or "rectified readymades" are created. |
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| Photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. |
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-One of the first artistic movements to address the horrors of war--and the moral problems and questions that accompanied the warfare
- Modern Art questioned the tradition of art, while Dada questioned the concept of art itself
- Dada mocked the so-called "rational" thought and foundation of modern society
- Removed the conventional understanding of art as something "precious" and "elite", replacing it with radical (and strange, often irrational) art about ideas and actions rather than about objects |
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German= baby talk
French= hobby horse
Russian (and Romanian)= Yes, yes
Kru African Dialect = The tail fo a sacred cow |
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Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
1917 |
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Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
Hannah Hoch
1919 |
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L.H.O.O.Q.
Marcel Duchamp
1919 |
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