Tag: Modern Art

Max Ernst, Dada, The Chinese Nightingale
Film, Visual Art

Dada as the Antidote to War and Capitalism

In the sobering aftermath of World War I in Zurich, Dada preached a radical-yet-whimsical philosophy of creativity, a self-styled anti-art. Random and meaningless by definition, calculatedly irrational by design, for a short time the movement spread like revolt to the US and across Europe, voicing the bizarre protest of a brave new community of artists and writers.