Dada: The Revolt of Art (Discoveries)

Well-written loaded with information and with a rich assortment of illustrations each Discoveries(r) volume is a look at one facet of art archaeology music history philosophy popular culture science or nature. These innovatively designed affordably priced compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way. Dada was one of the most important and influential movements in 20th-century art. Beginning in the anti-establishment climate around World War I it encompassed painting sculpture photography poetry and language graphic design film performing arts and criticism in Europe and America. Dada had an immense effect on art throughout the 20th century. Its emphasis on machines reflected similar mechanistic currents in art through the war years; its appropriation of advertising imagery was revived in Pop Art in later decades; and its anti-aesthetic anti-object and anti-art principles persisted in impor