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| Note created | Feb 13, 2026 |
An anti-art movement born in Zürich in 1916 during World War I, rejecting logic, reason, and bourgeois values through absurdity, satire, and chance-based creation. Key figures include Marcel Duchamp—whose Bicycle Wheel epitomizes the readymade’s challenge to artistic convention—Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, and Hannah Höch. It arose as a nihilistic reaction against the rationalism that Dadaists believed had led to the war, challenging every convention of Modern Art and paving the way for Surrealism.