Here's what it says regarding Dadaism in the World Book Encyclopedia: (in case anyone was wondering about Planet Dada Dadaism. In the years following World War I, many artists saw even Cubism as too tame and too rational for a world left in turmoil by the war's destruction. The movement called Dada was born in Zurich, Switzerland, though it later flourished in New York City and Paris. The Dada movement was an expression of irrationality directed at a world the Dadaists believed had lost all reason and concern for human values. Yet, through its self-imposed irrationality, Dada opened a new world of creative impulse. It developed guidelines that would encourage the use of chance occurrences and the conscious mind in creating art. Early members of the group included Jean Arp and Marcel Janco. Dada originated in 1916 in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The members of the group selected the word randomly from a French dictionary. Early in its history, Dada was primarily a literary movement in which poetry was created from a random selection of words. To create a Dada work of art, Arp used a similar technique. He placed torn pieces of paper into a box, and after shaking the box, he allowed the scraps to spill out onto a sheet of paper. He then pasted the pieces down according to the pattern in which they fell. He allowed randomness and chance to dictate the final composition of the picture. Arp's German colleague Kurt Schwitters also adopted an unconventional approach to making art. Schwitters's work developed out of the Synthetic Cubism style, but he was even more aggressive in incorporating everyday objects into his works. Schwitters's Merz Drawing appears in the Collage article in the print version of World Book. Schwitters incorporated actual trash, including a button and a used envelope, in this composition. By using identifiable rubbish, Schwitters raised questions about the difference between art and nonart. Interesting that Dadaism started in Zurrich!!! On Monday, February 09, 2004, at 10:14PM, Paul Jones <pjones@bettercut.com.au> wrote:
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