Dada

See also: dada, dáda, dadà, ɗada, da da, and dàdà

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːdɑː/

Noun

Dada (uncountable)

  1. A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.

Translations
cultural movement — See also translations at dadaism

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