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How Dada Dynamited the Old Art World

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Born in Europe amid the insanity of World War I, Dada was an art movement like no other—it rejected reason and agendas and embraced absurdism wherever it found it.

Wendy Smith
Wendy Smith
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Wendy Smith

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