Dada
Syllabification: (Da·da)
Pronunciation: /ˈdädä/
Definition of Dada
noun
- an early-20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.
Dada was launched in Zurich in 1916 by Tristan Tzara and others, soon merging with a similar group in New York. It favored montage, collage, and the ready-made. Leading figures: Jean Arp, André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp
Derivatives
Origin:
French, literally 'hobbyhorse', the title of a review that appeared in Zurich in 1916