Lecture and Reading Summation 10/15/10

Dada, Surrealism, and After

Dada-
-Began during WWI
-Protest against war, society, and old social order

Contributions-
-Appropriation
-Assemblage
-Construction
-Conceptual Art
-Chance

Some Dada Artists-
-Jean Arp
-Hugo Ball
-Kurt Schwitters
-Marcel Duchamp

Hugo Ball opened Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 in Switzerland.
A group of the Dada artists moved to Berlin.
In 1924 there was a group in Paris that was interested in new forms of expression that morph into surrealism.